Scientists used many words derived from Latin. The Latin word for a small room or enclosure is cella, which was also used with the same meaning in old English and French. Each cell is like a small room, having a wall or enclosing membrane.
Robert Hooke coined the word "cell"
Robert Hooke had told other scientists about his discovery by publishing a book about cell theory. Cheers :)
he didnt create the cell theory
Robert Hooke first viewed and named cells. He did this through a microscope he invented himself, made with slices of cork for his observations. He was a brilliant man in the world of Science. His inventions and discoveries were very important. :D
Robert Hooke coined the word "cell" in 1665 after examining a section (slice) of cork under a microscope.He thought that the pattern of cell walls (which is what he was in fact looking at) resembled the cells inhabited by monks in a monastery.
Robert Hooke coined the word "cell"
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Robert Hooke had told other scientists about his discovery by publishing a book about cell theory. Cheers :)
Who was the first scientist to use the word cell : the first scientist is ROBERT HOOKE,, and he find it on 1663.
he didnt create the cell theory
The first person to use the word "cells" in a biological context was Robert Hooke in the 17th century. He used the term to describe the small compartments he observed in a slice of cork under a microscope, likening them to the cells in a monastery.
Robert Hooke used the word cell when he looked at cork through the microscope because he probably thought of prison cells (prison cells are all squashed together like cells/cell particles of the cork).
In 1663, Hooke observed the structure of a thin slice of cork using a compound microscope he had built himself. Cork, the bark of an oak tree, is made up of cells that are no longer alive. To Hooke, the cork looked like it was made up of tiny rectangular rooms, which he called cells.
In 1663 an English scientist, Robert Hooke, discovered cells in a piece of cork, which he examined under his primitive microscope. Actually, Hooke only observed cell walls because cork cells are dead and without cytoplasmic contents. Hooke drew the cells he saw and also coined the word CELL. The word cell is derived from the Latin word 'cellula' which means small compartment. Hooke published his findings in his famous work, Micrographia: Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses (1665).
Robert hooke was lookin at a peice of cork, a thin slice of plant material. He named it a "cell" because the empty spaces reminded him of the cells (rooms) in the monastery he lived in.---Stealth Ninja
Robert Hooke first viewed and named cells. He did this through a microscope he invented himself, made with slices of cork for his observations. He was a brilliant man in the world of Science. His inventions and discoveries were very important. :D