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1268
Discovery of The Magnifying Glass
Roger Bacon is credited for creating the first magnifying glass in 1268. He was the first person to discover the use of magnifying glasses in use for improving reading and to construct strong lenses to enable humans with sight for far distances -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
He was a 16th century anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, Published in 1543. This is book is most commonly know as the Fabrica. The Fabrica is the most famous anatomy book ever written and also the first book on human anatomy to be reasonably accurate. -
Invention of The Microscope
The first microscope was invented by Hans and Zacharius Janssen, which later on became utilised as a scientific instrument in experiments. Their creation was based on lenses in a tube, but there were no observations or discoveries published themselves with the use of their discovery -
Robert Hooke
He was the first to visualize a micro-organism using a microscope, discovering the cell. he named the box shaped structures that he saw "cells", and this led to the developing of the cell theory -
Macello Malphingi
He was an Italian biologist, physician and he discovered the invisible world of the human body and plants, by studying tissues under a microscope. He was the first person to discover red blood cells. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhock
Anton was known as the father of microbiology, he was the first to make observations of bacteria and protazoa, and studied the structure of many materials such as wood and crystal. He also made over 500 microscopes. -
Robert Brown's first event
Robert Brown conducted studies in Australia on the native flora in the region, in 1801. His work at this time developed our knowledge of plant morphology, embryology, and biography. He improved plant taxonomy by defining new species of plants -
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
He was one of the first to use the term "biology" in publication in 1802. He is known for his idea called Lamarckism which challenges genetic and envolutionary theory in the modern world. -
Robert Brown's second event
He is known for his descriptions of cell nuclei and developed the Brownian motion in 1831. It states that there is continuous motion of minute particles. -
Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden
Theodor was a German physician and physiologist, whose most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals. Theodor studied tissues and proposed the unified cell theory. Mathias was a German botanist and a co-founder of the unified cell theory. The unified cell theory states that all living things are composed of one or more cells; the cell is the basic unit of life; and new cells arise from existing cells. -
Louis Pasteur
He disproved the spontaneous generation. Pasteur was also the first scientist to prove cells can only form from pre-existing cells. He did this through an experiment where he showed that cells would only grow in broth if air was exposed. -
Rudolf Virchow
Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. His greatest accomplishment was his observation that a whole organism does not get sick-only certain cells or cell groups. In 1855, he published his now famous aphorism "omnis cellula e cellula", mean "every cell stems from another cell."