history of microscopes

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    Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

    he created the first microscope. he was the first person to see a single sell organism.
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    Robert Hooke.

    through a microscope he saw many little box like compartments in the bark of on oak tree.
  • Francisco Redi.

    he did a experiment to prove that living things come from other living things.
  • Matthias Schleiden and Theodore Schwann

    they developed sell theory.
  • Rudolf Virchow

    he discovered that all sells come from preexisting sells.
  • Louis Pasteur

    he did a famous experiment to prove that microorganisms come from preexisting microorganisms.
  • James HIllier and Albert Prebus

    they invented an electron light microscope.