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in 1595, Zacharias Janssen possibly with the help of his father Hans, invented the compound microscope.
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Robert Hooke saw the dead cl walls of a plant and named each compartment a "cell". he discovered the first cell
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek wass the first to witness a live cell under a microscope.
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Charles Francois Brisseau de Mirbel was the first to recognize that each plant cell is contained in a continuous membrane.
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Thedor Schwann and Mattias Jakob Schleiden proposed that all living things are composed of cells and cell product.
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Rudolph Virchow declared that all living cells arise from other living cells.
