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Robert Hooke: English scientist who discovered the cell
Robert Hooke was a 17th-century scientist who contributed to our knowledge of mathematics, mechanics, biology and astronomy. Hooke is perhaps most famous for discovering the living cell, but he is also well known for finding the law that governs the stretch of elastic material, improving weather measurement devices and discovering new celestial objects.
Early life
Hooke was born in 1635 on the Isle of Wight, an island off the southern coast of England.
As a child, he was too sickly to attend school, as he suffered from a severe case of smallpox, according to Oxford Academic. Instead, he spent much of his childhood drawing in his bedroom, according to Historic UK.
However, even at a young age, Hooke showed a strong mechanical ability, building a clock out of wood and a toy boat with cannons that fired, according to RobertHooke.org.uk.
In his teens, after his father died, Hooke enrolled at Westminster Sc