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The Story of the Cell

Engraved circle showing a slice of cork as a mesh of small rectangular compartments.
Hooke's drawing of cork: the first cells to be named.

Image: Robert Hooke, Micrographia (London, 1665), Scheme XI · Public domain

A Knaph story

The Story of the Cell

How people found the smallest thing that is alive

1665 – 2013

From holes in a slice of cork to bacteria living inside our own cells: the microscopes, the arguments and the experiments that showed what all living things are made of.

A Knaph story

The Story of the Cell

How people found the smallest thing that is alive

1665 – 2013

From holes in a slice of cork to bacteria living inside our own cells: the microscopes, the arguments and the experiments that showed what all living things are made of.

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