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The Cell Theory

  • Compound Microscope

    Compound Microscope

    Zacharias Jansen creates the first compound microscope.
  • Animalcules

    Animalcules

    Robert hook looks at a cork and finds that it is made of cells but things that they look like tiny animals.
  • Teeth scrapings

    Teeth scrapings

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek looks at his teeth through a microscope at his teeth and sees bacteria.
  • Plants and cells

    Plants and cells

    Matthias Schleiden discovers that plants are made of cells.
  • Animals and cells

    Animals and cells

    Theodor Shwann discovers that animals are made of cells.
  • Mitosis

    Mitosis

    Rudolph Virchow discovers that cells come from other cells.