Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, ...

Peering at plant tissues, Hooke saw a pattern of tiny container units, which he named cells after the tiny cubicles inhabited by monks. Later he verified Leeuwenhoek's discovery of microbes. Hooke's ...

In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert Hooke first discovered cells using a microscope, he also became the first to illustrate these minuscule building blocks of life.

So we learn that Hooke coined the term “cell” for biological organisms, after peering at pieces of cork through a microscope; that he was first to publish a wave theory of light; that he developed the ...

In 1660, Hooke discovered the law of elasticity, ... Robert Hooke used his microscope to study the ancient cells in fossilized wood.

It’s 1665, and scientist Robert Hooke has just used his newly-invented light microscope to look at a thin slice of cork up close. ... I think I just discovered cells.” ...

It was more difficult to reduce the multicellular organisms to their basic elements, although the English physicist Robert Hooke discovered single cells in the living plant as long ago as 1665, ...

CENTURIES OF PROGRESS A Robert Hooke drawing from his 1665 book Micrographia (right) depicts little boxes in a slice of cork that he called cells. Today microscopes provide extraordinary views of ...

One day, the British scientist and “natural philosopher” Robert Hooke bent over a microscope that he’d constructed himself. He’d studied plenty of objects under the microscope before—the tip of a ...