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About a century later Kaspar Friedrich Wolff published his important "Theoria generationis" (1759) which clearly shows that he must have observed cells in plants as well as in animals.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Moreover, there were various physiologists who earlier than any of these had foreshadowed the cell theory -- notably Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, towards the close of the previous century, and Treviranus about 1807, But, as we have seen in so many other departments of science, it is one thing to foreshadow a discovery, it is quite another to give it full expression and make it germinal of other discoveries.
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