Brendan Fairchild's cell theory timeline

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Aristotle

    Classified animals to discover connections between the soul and the human body
    In 384 B.C.
  • First microscope

    Zacharias Jansen created the first microscope
  • Tree experiment

    Jan Baptist van Helmont was arrested for testing how trees grew everyone originally thought that trees grew but eating soil. Helmont made an experiment and concluded that plants ate only water. He was wrong but in was closer than the previous accusation.
  • The Discovery of cells

    Robert Hooke looked at a slice of cork and saw a honeycomb structure and named it a cell
  • Living cells observed

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek sees the first living cell from pond water
  • Animal classification

    Lorenz oaken Invented a different way of classifying animals
  • Nucleas discovery

    Robert Brown discovered the nucleas of a cell
  • Animal cells

    Theodor Schwann made the discovery that not only plant but animals too composed of cells
  • Egg cells

    Albrecht von Roelliker discovered that sperm and eggs are cells
  • Development of cells

    Rudolf Virchow Proposed that Diseased cells came from Healthy cells
  • Spoil proof

    Luis Pasteur found a way of keeping food from going bad and making people sick
  • Plant cell discovery

    Matthias Schleiden made the discovery that all plant have cells and that cells are the building blocks of all plants
  • Aristotle

  • Aristotle

  • Aristotle

  • Aristotle

    Classified animals to discover connections between the soul and the human body