Because the boxlike cells of cork reminded him of the cells in which live at a monastery.
From my Biology book-chapter7 section 1.
They resembled small rooms. He then decided upon calling them cells because they resembled cells more so than small rooms. That is how the name for cells originated.
Robert Hooke named the spaces in the cork cell
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Robert Hooke named the spaces in the cork cell
Robert Hooke named the spaces in the cork cell
Robert Hooke in 1665 Robert Hooke an English scientist cut a thin slice of cork and looked at it under his microscope. to Hooke the cork seemed to be a bunch of tiny boxes which he called "cells"
Robert Hooke first observed cells in cork.
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Robert Hookie was the first person to see cells in a cork, the bark of a tree he also then mamed them cells after the laitn term compartment
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Robert Hooke observed dead cells in a cork.
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