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| Hans and Zacharias Janssen |
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| grinders who made the first microscope by placing two lenses in a tube |
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| first to describe cells and bacteria, seen through his very small microscopes with, for his time, extremely good lenses. More importantly, he was the first person to study the world of tiny living creatures that exist all around us |
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Among his work were
a description of cork and its ability to float in water. He named the
network of boxes he saw "cellulae" or "little rooms" in Latin. |
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| Matthias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann |
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studied cells combined their observations to make a hypothesis … all
living things are made up of cells. |
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contributed his observation and together the Cell
Theory was formulated:
o all living things are composed of one or more cells
o cells are the basic units of structure and function in all
organisms. |
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