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Who discovered cells, and how?

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Robert Hooke in 1665 discovered the cells. He examined a thin slice of cork under a self-designed crude microscope and observed that the cork resembled the structure of a honey comb. The latter consisted of many thin compartments. Hooke called them cellules (singular callula), now termed cells. Cellula is a Latin neme which menas' a little room'. Such rooms were also present in monastri
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