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Well, we can't see such tiny small things with just a naked eye. So they invented microscopes. The answer is because no microscopes were invented. The first person to build a microscope was Robert Hooke. In 1665 Robert Hooke observed a thin slice of cork through a microscope.

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too small for the naked eye, no microscopes

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Why cells could not be observed before seventeenth century?

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