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  2. May 3, 2024 · In 1665 Robert Hooke published what would become his most famous work, Micrographia (”Small Drawings”). In it he included his studies and illustrations of the crystal structure of snowflakes and first used the word cell to name the microscopic honeycomb cavities in cork.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Robert_HookeRobert Hooke - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Robert Hooke FRS (/ h ʊ k /; 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English polymath who was active as a physicist ("natural philosopher"), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, [6] using a compound microscope that he designed. [7]

  4. May 22, 2024 · VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF. Robert Hooke (1635–1703) is commonly credited for introducing the term cell into biology when describing the microscopic structure of plant tissues in his Micrographia of 1665. This narrative ignor...

  5. May 4, 2024 · Cell theory had its roots in the physicist and astronomer Robert Hookes first depiction published in Micrographia in 1665. Before Hooke, in the seventeenth century, all living forms were thought to depend on vitalism. A force distinct from all physical and chemical forces peculiar to living organisms, vitalism controlled form and function.

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AbiogenesisAbiogenesis - Wikipedia

    6 days ago · This theory held that "lower" animals such as insects were generated by decaying organic substances, and that life arose by chance. This was questioned from the 17th century, in works like Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica. In 1665, Robert Hooke published the first drawings of a microorganism.

  7. 3 days ago · Later scientists, such as Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke, used Janssen’s invention to make significant discoveries about cells. Van Leeuwenhoek, known as the “Father of Microbiology,” was the first to observe bacteria, protozoa, spermatozoa, and rotifers, while Hooke discovered and named the cell.

  8. May 22, 2024 · Complete answer: Cell was discovered by a British scientist, Robert Hooke in 1665. He observed cells in a cork slice under his self-designed microscope and noticed honeycomb like compartments. He coined them as cells. Term cell was derived from latin word cellula = a hollow space. Hooke explained these cells in a book named Micrographia.

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