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Robert Hooke's Discovery: The Microscopic World of Cells
This was a game-changer.
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Organelles of eukaryotic cells
A defining feature of eukaryotic cells is the presence of membrane-bound organelles...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Robert Hooke's drawings
Robert Hooke's drawings of the cellular structure of cork and a sprig of sensitive...
From Micrographia, by Robert Hooke, 1665
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden.
From The Popular Science Monthly, Volume XXII, by E.L and W.J. Youmans, November 1882-April 1883, published by D. Appleton and Company, New York.
Theodor Schwann
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