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Robert Hooke invented the first microscope, he used it to discover cells in cork made of special bark
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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
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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
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Anton van Leeeuownehoek became the first person to discover a single celled organisms called protisits
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Anton van Leeuwonhoek discovered bacteria in the mouth
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atfer microscopes improved Robert brown used a microscope to discover the part of a cell called a nucleas in plant cells
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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
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Rudolf Kolliker discovered mitocondria which where small things in muscle cells, these where very small
