Hooke's Illustration of Cells

Hooke's Illustration of Cells

Robert Hooke's 1667 illustration of the cells of a plant (from Micrographia) is the first graphical statement of the cell theory. It paved the work for subsequent botanical research.

From R. T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, facing III, 208.

Contexts:
- Science -- Biology
- Science -- Biology -- Botany
Images:
- Title Page of Micrographia
- Early eighteenth-century compound microscope