Abiogenesis - The invention of the microscope allowed the first view of cells. English physicist and microscopist Robert Hooke (1635–1702) first described cells in 1665. He made thin slices of cork and
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The hand-crafted, leather and gold-tooled microscope Robert Hooke used to make the observations for Micrographia (1665), was originally constructed by Christopher White in London. The microscope shared several common features with telescopes
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