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Dec 31, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a anatomist, physician, and author of one of books on human anatomy, Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. -
Sep 19, 1580
Zacharius and Hans Janssen
Zacharius Jansses was born in c.180 and created a microscope with the help of his father Hans Janssen. During the 1590s, they began experimenting. They put several lenses in a tube and made a very important discovery - the object near the end of the tube appeared to be greatly enlarged, much larger than any simple magnifying glass could achieve by itself. -
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Microscope
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke, Charles A. Spenc, Anton van Leeuwenhoek , Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans. All these people helped with the starting of the microscope and making it better. -
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek
In 1764 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria, yeast plants, the teeming life in a drop of water, and the circulation of blood corpuscles. During a long life he used his lenses to make pioneer studies on an extraordinary variety of things, both living and non-living, and reported his findings in over a hundred letters to the Royal Society of England and the French Academy. -
Robert Hooke
In 1655 Robert Hooke a British man designed his own telescope and discovered matter made up of what he called cells. -
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Cells
Ruldolph Virchow, Theodore Schwann, Mattlas Schleiden, Anton Von Leeuwenhoek, Robert Hooke. All these people discovered cells and found new information on cells. -
C.F. Wolff
In 1759 C.F. Wolff of Germany proposed a general cell theory. -
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Autopsy
Autopsy was founded by Giovanni Morgagni. He wrote one of the most gruesome, humane and riveting early texts of modern medicine, ”The Seats and Causes of Disease Investigated by Anatomy.” In the 1800's William Osler carried the perspective of autopsy when Giovanni Morgagni past away. In the early 1900's Richard Clarke Cabot strenthed what Willian Osler had found. Throught out the years the finding and understanding of autopsy grew, it still grows to this date. -
Charles Darwin
In 1859 Charles Darwin published "On th Origin of Species" explaining units of heredity and variations in species. -
Theodor Schwann
In 1839 Theodor Schwann of Germany published cell theory as applied to animals. -
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Ancient Egyptian Medicine
Edwin Smith was the first person to acquire two documents from dealers. It containes 700 formulas on healing remedies from Ancient Egypt. The second document is known as Edwin Smith Papyrus and is an ancient surgical guide. These two documents were used in the Ancient Egyptian times for medicines. -
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Aboriginal Medicine
In 1910 aboriginal people started to use tea tree oil for wounds and troat sores. From that date the medicine use grew. They used Eucalyptus oil, desert mushrooms, emu bush, witchetty grub adn many more things they found in the bush to be used as medicines. -
Ernst Ruska
In 1931 Ernst Ruska invented the the Electron Microscope. -
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Human Genome
The idea of the Human Genome Project first began in a vague way in the 1970s when biologists started to investigate human genes at the molecular level. It's level of information and discovery is still continuing to this day.
