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No portrait survives of Robert Hooke. His name is somewhat obscure today, due in part to the enmity of his famous, influential, and extremely vindictive colleague, Sir Isaac Newton. Yet Hooke was perhaps the single greatest experimental scientist of the seventeenth century. Hooke had discovered plant cells --
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Cells. Discovery and Basic Structure. by Carl Shuster, M.A./M.S.. In 1655, the English scientist Robert Hooke made an observation that would change basic...
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In 1660, Hooke discovered the law of elasticity which bears his name and which .... Hooke coined the term cell for describing biological organisms,
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In 1665, the English physicist Robert Hooke looked at a sliver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed some "pores" or "cells" in it. Robert Hooke believed the cells had served as containers for the "noble juices" or "fibrous threads" of the once-living cork tree.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Robert Hooke (British scientist), July 18, 1635Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Eng. March 3, 1703LondonEnglish physicist who discovered the law of elasticity, known as Hooke’s law, and who did research in a remarkable variety of fields. CREATE MY Robert Hooke NEW ARTICLE...
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Science question: In what year did robert hooke dicover cells? Robert Hooke discovered cells in 1663 He was the first to discover cells by finding dead the...
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The cover of Robert Hooke's Micrographia, published in 1665, is shown to the right. In it he described how to make a microscope like the one he used. Hooke also wrote how a short focus lens is constructed. The cell wasn't really understood until 1839 when scientists began to discover its importance.
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"It was this property of light magnification that led to the invention of the first microscope, an instrument which was used by Robert Hooke to discover the world of living cells. This discovery was later advanced by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
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Robert Hooke (18 July 1635 - 3 March 1703) - natural philosopher, inventor, architect.... Images: Hooke memorial window, St Helen's Bishopsgate (now destroyed); flea, from Micrographia; title page from Micrographia; drawing of cells (the first Biological use of the word) in cork.
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