It was the development of the microscope that was significant in contributing to the development of the cell theory. All things that are alive are made up of cells.
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He was a German zoologist. He contributed to the development of cell theory, discovered Schwann cells and the peripheral nervous system, and invented the term metabolism.
Invention of the microscope.
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The microscope gave conclusions and observations to the cell theory. It showed how the cell looked and how it developed.
Credit for the formulation of this theory is given to German scientists Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, and Rudolph Virchow.
it help us to see the cells physically.
Robert Hooke, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Mattias Shleiden, Theodor Schwann, and Rudolph Virchow
In seventeenth century, microscopes were improved.Robert Hooke cut a thin slice of cork and looked at it under the microscope.To Hooke, the cork seemed to be made up of empty little boxes,which he named cells.Matthias Schleiden used a microscope to study plant parts.Rudolph Virchow hypothesized that cells divide and form new cells
He contributed the name cells because, they were tiny like jail cells.