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They created the first compound microscope
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Uses the words cells to describe what he sees in cork "dead cells first seen"
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He improved the microscope discovered bacteria "living cells"
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Matthias Schleiden proposed that all plants are made of cells
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He found out that all animals are made of cells. He also stated that cells a re basic units of life.
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He believed that all cells come from other living cells. (He copied this from a less famous scientist).