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Discovery observations form acts of detecting and learning something. Discovery observations are acts in which something is found and gives a productive insight.
Description
New deiscoveries are aquired through various senses and are usually assimiliated with preexisting knowledge. With reference to science and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and prodinging new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations with previously acquired knowledge from abstract thought and everyday experience. The discovery that the Earth was not flat. In Western culture, Greek philosophers realized that the Earth was round by the fourth century BCE; non-western cultures noticed it even earlier. Indeed, the curvature of the earth is fairly obvious to seagoing people--for example, watching a ship disappear bottom-first over the horizon. Western culture has used the term "discovery" in their histories to subtly emphasize the importance of "exploration" in the history of the world, such as in the "Age of Exploration". Since the beginning of contact between Europe and the rest of the world, the "discovery" of every continent, island, and geographical feature, disregarded the fact that, in nearly every case, native people had already "discovered" it centuries or even millennia before. In that way, the term has Eurocentric and ethnocentric meaning often overlooked by westerners.
Example discoveries
Witin the course of innovation, major scientific theories and discoveries were developed by various people. In many cases, the discovery spanned several years. The folowing are a few discoveries by observation:
- JJ Thomson discovery of the electron model.
- The discovery of the structure of DNA.
- The discovery of quasars.
See also
External links
- People & discoveries
- A Guide to Inventions and Discoveries: From Adrenaline to the Zipper
- Roundup of Recent Science Discoveries
- Stories of some notable discoveries in science
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