Robert

Question

began describing cells in the 17th century.

ansewers

Van Leeuwenhoek

Hooke

Answer 1

Yes, both Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Robert Hooke played significant roles in describing cells in the 17th century. Van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch scientist who was the first to observe and describe living cells through the use of a microscope. Robert Hooke, an English scientist, also observed cells under a microscope and coined the term "cell" to describe the small compartments he saw in cork samples.