Many images are closely associated with the 17th-century English experimentalist Robert Hooke: the hugely enlarged flea, the orderly plant units he named "cells," among others. To create them, Hooke ...

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is best known for his depiction of a flea as seen through his microscope ... was in fact a pioneer—he coined the term “cell,” for the hollow structures he found ...

Sure enough, when the duo got together to examine notochords under the microscope, they saw cells containing nuclei just like those seen in plants. Such observations might seem ho-hum today, but they ...

With the invention of the microscope ... cell formation' was reminiscent of the old 'spontaneous generation' doctrine (although as an intracellular variant), but was refuted in the 1850s by Robert ...

In 1665 a scientist called Robert Hooke was using a microscope to look at a thin slice of cork. He saw lots of little boxes in the cork, and he called these boxes ‘cells’. Animal cells usually ...