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460 BCE
Democitis
He figured out that every thing was made out of matter -
64
Seneca
He filled a glass with water and figured out that things looked different -
127
Claudius Ptolemy
He figured out that you could magnify things with curved glass -
Jan 1, 1485
Leonardo da Vinci
He said how he used small lenses to look at very small objects -
Hans and Zacharias Jansen
They put 2 convex lenses into a tube to make a compact microscope -
First time seeing cells
Robert Hooke saw cells for the first time with cork -
The word cell was made
After Robert Hooke discovered cells he named them cells -
Francesco Redi
Disproved the phenomenon of spontaneous generation -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Discovered Bacteria -
Caspar Wolff
He proposed that all organs and animal embryos were made out of globules which can be seen under a microscope -
Felice Fontana
He discovered nucleolus after finding it on the slime of an eel -
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
He said that cellular tissue is the general matrix of all organisms