a hobby and used to view various specimen under
his microscope. Once, he made a thin slice of cork and observed it under the microscope. Since corks are made from the oak trees, they were made up of cells. Hooke observed numerous tiny compartments and called them "cells".
Robert Hooke (28 July 1635 – 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.
The cell was discovered in 1665.
The cell theory, first developed in 1839 by Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann, states that all organisms are composed of one or more cells, that all cells come from preexisting cells, that vital functions of an organism occur within cells, and that all cells contain the hereditary information necessary for regulating cell functions and for transmitting information to the next generation of cells.
Cells emerged on planet Earth at least 4.0–4.3 billion years