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Athanasius Kircher showed living creatures like maggots in decaying tissue. this shows how life developed from preexisting cells in the tissue. -
This description showed how cells existed in blood. -
Robert Hooke published micrographia. This improved the study of cells and created units such as cells and pores through using the microscope. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoeksaw that as the particles were motile, they were living. This showed how animals had living cells as well -
Abbot Felice Fontana observed the nucleus in epithelial cells. This showed the existence of it before it was named. -
Robert Brown introduced the term "nucleus" after recognizing it first as essential to a living cell. this term is needed for learning about cells and how they work. -
Matthias Jakob Schleiden claimed that cells made up every structural element of a plant. This showed how much cells impacted the environment and gave information of how cells work and their use. -
Theodor Schwann similar to Schleiden concluded that animal structures were made of cells. This showed how plants and animals were similar in this way and the many purposes of cells. -
the statement cells originate from cells was reinforced by Robert Remak, Rudolf Virchow, and Alert Kolliker.
this is one of 3 parts to the cell theory. -
Karl Deiters published drawings and descriptions of cells showing their other functions and how much they contribute to other living things.