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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All inspired by the work of renowned scientist Robert Hooke who in 1665 published a book called Micrographia, full of drawings of creatures and plants seen through his microscope. The image of a ...

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 ...