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Zacharias Janssen built the first micro scope
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Robert Hooke discovered cells while looking at a slice of cork
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Francisco Redi proved that maggots don’t come from spoiled meat, but from fly eggs
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Anton van Leuwenhoek discovered that cells are also found in animals, and discovered single celled organisms
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Louis Pasteur disproved many ideas of the spontaneous generation, most famous being rats don’t come from clothes and corn
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Matthias Schleleiden proved that all plant parts are made of cells
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Theodore Schwann stated that all animal tissues are made up of cells
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Rudolf Virchow stated that all cells form from pre existing cells