History of Cell Biology

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    Antoni van Leeuwenkoek

    Animalcules 1673 Royal Society of London
    200 letters in 50 years
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    Robert Hooke

    Lots of microscopy observations of structures and live beings------> Micrographia
    Cells: cavities observed in the cork
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    Schleiden and Schwann

    The living matter is formed by cells
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    Purkinge

    Protoplasm (cell content)
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    Rudolph Virchow

    Omnis cellula ex cellula
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    Jean-Baptiste Carnoy

    Edition of the first journal of cell biology