Around 1590, Dutch lens makers Hans and Zacharias Janssen made the first microscope. They did that by putting two glass lenses in a tube.
About 60 years later, English scientist Robert Hooke used a similar device to study cork from a tree. He saw what looked like empty compartments in the magnified cork and called them cells. The name stuck. But our view of cells has changed a lot.
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