Seeing cells through a microscope for the first time, in this Moment of Science. The 17th-century English physicist Robert Hooke was curious about the remarkable properties of cork -- its ability ...

The 17th-century English physicist Robert Hooke was curious about the remarkable properties of cork—its ability to float, its springy quality, its usefulness in sealing bottles. Hooke ...

demonstrates in “Robert Hooke’s Experimental Philosophy” that he was in fact a pioneer—he coined the term “cell,” for the hollow structures he found inside a slice of cork, insisted ...

In 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke published Micrographia, a book full of drawings depicting views through what was then a novel invention: the microscope. Peering at a slice of cork through ...

One day, the British scientist and “natural philosopher” Robert Hooke bent over a microscope that he ... Underneath the microscope was a piece of cork. Hooke's illustration of a magnified piece of ...

In the 1660s, Robert Hooke looked through a primitive microscope at a thinly cut piece of cork. He saw a series of walled boxes that reminded him of the tiny rooms, or cellula, occupied by monks.