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In about 1597 two Dutch eyeglass makers, Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans were experimenting with lenses in a tube. They observed that nearby objects viewed through two lenses in line were magnified. Their device was the first compound microscope.
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In 1665 Robett Hooke invented the Micrsoscope. His newwely invented microscope is discover cells in cork, Bark and wine bottles.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovered basteria whcich were even smaller.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek uses a simple microscope with only one lense to look at and magnify objects such as blood cells, insects and many mor objects.
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Scottish Botanist Robert Brown used a microscope to discover a cell nucleus.
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German Bioligist Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden proposed the Cell Theory of life. They theory was started that:
+ all living things are made up of cells.
+all cells are created when old cells divide into two.
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German Physician Rudolf Virchow proved once and for all that cells only form by other cells reproducing by splitting.
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Rudolf Kolliker, a swiss anatomist found in 1857 that muscle that contained even smaller parts called the Mitochondria.
