The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view. In contemporary writing parallax can also be the same story, or a similar story from approximately the same time line, from one book told from a different perspective in another book.
In 1838, Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden were enjoying after-dinner coffee and talking about their studies on cells. It has been suggested that when Schwann heard Schleiden describe plant cells with nuclei, he was struck by the similarity of these plant cells to cells he had observed in animal tissues.
Robert Hooke is credited as the scientist who first discovered cells. He examined a slice of cork under a microscope and found empty spaces enclosed by walls. He called these structures pores, and the term cell later stuck as being synonymous with what he had seen.