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the first microscope
Robert Hooke invented the first microscope, he used it to discover cells in cork made of special bark -
naming the cell
when he looke through the microscope and found little box like shapes, they reminded him of the 'cells' that monks occupied, so he decided to call them cells -
the hand held microscope
an amature scientist Anton van Lewowenhoek created a hand held microscope, his microscope could multiply by 300 as the origanial ones could only multiply by 50 times bigger -
discoverign protists
Anton van Leeeuownehoek became the first person to discover a single celled organisms called protisits -
discoverign bacteria
Anton van Leeuwonhoek discovered bacteria in the mouth -
the nucleas
atfer microscopes improved Robert brown used a microscope to discover the part of a cell called a nucleas in plant cells -
the cell theory
theodor shwann and Matthais Schiliden proposed the theory of cell life, they realised all living things are made up of cells and new cells are created by old cells -
discovered miticondria
Rudolf Kolliker discovered mitocondria which where small things in muscle cells, these where very small
