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But 150 years ago, an important discovery of life’s building block took ... While cells were first discovered in 1665 by Robert Hooke, an English natural philosopher, the cell theory was only ...

English scientist Robert Hooke discovered cells in 1665, looking at cork under a microscope. He introduced the word cell because the patterns made by the cellulose walls of dead cork reminded him ...