Question

What Robert Hooke observed in his experiment?
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Answer 1

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Hooke looked at the bark of a cork tree and observed its microscopic structure. In doing so, he discovered and named the cell – the building block of life. He thought the objects he had discovered looked like the individual rooms in a monastery, which were known as cells.

Parents: John Hooke, Cecily Gyles

Works written: Micrographia

Born: July 28, 1635

Died: March 3, 1703, London

Answer 2

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Hooke published, under the title Micrographia, the results of his microscopic observations on several plant tissues. He is remembered as the coiner of the word “cell,” referring to the cavities he observed in thin slices of cork.