Lauren Royal-Woods
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- The Creation Of The First Microscope
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- Anton's Microscope
- Anton's Findings
- In the early 1600s in Netherlands, a spectacle maker named Zacharias Janssen is said to have come up with the first compound microscope, along with the first telescope. Microscope soon became a hot item that every naturalist or scientist at the time wanted to use and learn from.
- Anton Mailing Findings
- A fellow Dutchman by the name of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who heard about these microscope doohickeys, decided to make his own. And it was a strange little contraption indeed, as it looked more like a tiny paddle the size of a sunglass lens.
- Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann
- Once Leeuwenhoek had his microscope ready, he went to town, looking at anything and everything he could with them, including the gunk on his teeth. He actually discovered bacteria by looking at dental scrapings. When he wrote about his discovery, he didn't call them bacteria, as we know them today. But he called them "animalcules," because they looked like little animals to him.
- Cell Theory
- While Leeuwenhoek was staring at his teeth gunk, he was also sending letters to a scientific colleague in England, by the name of Robert Hooke. Hooke was a guy who really loved all aspects of science and it is Hooke who we can thank for the term "the cell," as he was looking at a piece of cork under his microscope, and the little chambers he saw reminded him of cells, or the rooms monks slept in in their monasteries.
- In the 1800s, two German scientists Matthias Schleiden a botanist who liked to study plants under a microscope and Theodor Schwann a scientist who not only studied slides of animal cells discovered the cell theory. Both came to the conclusion that all animals and plants were made of cells. Immediately, Schwann reached out via snail mail, to other scientists working in the same field with Schleiden, who got back to him, and the two started working on the beginnings of the cell theory.
- As a bone of contention arose between them, both eventually agreed that the cell theory consisted of all organisms are composed of one or more cells, the cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in organisms, and all cells come from preexisting cells.
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