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A Unifying Concept: The History Of Cell Theory

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The car. It all started long ago when Ferdinand Verbiest invented a self-propelled vehicle using a steam engine. Then to Henry Ford, creating the first combustion engine to today with cars that can park themselves, stop themselves, and even drive themselves. Over the years scientists have been making scientific developments of what civilians thought were impossible. For many years scientists have been discovering new and outrageous breakthroughs changing history, yet people still believe that scientific knowledge is definite. The belief that scientific knowledge is absolute is absolutely ridiculous given that biologists are still discovering new information and disproving previous knowledge. According to Karl Mathiesen, of The Guardian, a new plastic …show more content…

This tells us that the microscope has been around forever, but even though it has been around for a long time, it has evolved overtime allowing us to see particles better proving that scientific knowledge has changed over time. With this change we are able to accomplish scientific achievements because we can see more in depth. Even though people believe scientific knowledge is absolute, we can obviously see the scientific changes. In 1665 the cell was discovered by Robert Hooke when he was examining a very thin piece of cork when he discovered honeycomb-like structure, but he did not know what was in these so-called cells at the time. “His cell observations gave no indication of the nucleus and other organelles found in most living cells” (Cell Theory, 2). Here we can see that what Hooke’s observations said are not the case anymore, we have discovered that there are many different organelles in a cell. Many people believe that scientific knowledge is not absolute but obviously we can see that it

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