they were empty
he discovered cells while looking at cork.
Cork.
Robert Hooke described the parts of cork he saw under a microscope as "cells" in 1665. He said this because they looked like jail cells.
Robert Hooke observed the dead cells of the cork tree when he looked at a thin slice of cork under his microscope in 1665. This led to the first documented observation of cells in plant tissue, which he described as "cells" due to their resemblance to the cells in a monastery's living quarters.
He was looking at a thing slice of cork and noticed little holes that looked like tiny rooms. He then used the word cells meaning "small room". Although the cells weren't alive.
Robert Hooke observed cells in a slice of cork under a microscope, describing them as small, box-like compartments, which he named "cells." This observation contributed to the development of cell theory in biology.
Robert Hooke named the spaces in the cork cell
The English scientist Robert Hooke looked at cork tissue under a microscope in 1665 and observed small compartments that he called "cells" because they reminded him of the cells in a monastery. This observation gave birth to the term "cell" in biology.
The first recorded observation of cork cells was made by English scientist Robert Hooke in 1665. He viewed thin slices of cork through a primitive microscope he had constructed, describing the cells he saw as resembling small, empty rooms or compartments.
Robert Hooke discovered cells in plant tissue when he observed thin slices of cork under a microscope. His observation of cells marked the beginning of the field of cell biology.
Robert Hooke discovered cells in living organisms while studying cork under a compound microscope. He coined the term "cell" to describe the small compartments he observed in the cork tissue. This observation laid the foundation for the cell theory in biology.
Robert was famous for discovering cells and springs and elasticity. He first discovered cells in cork samplings and then in plant tissue. For this, Robert used a microscope said to have been "an early microscope."