Discovery (observation)
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A discovery is a novel observation, usually of a natural phenomenon.
Contrast with: invention, technique, theory
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Historical discoveries
The discovery that the Earth was not flat. In Western culture, Greek philosophers realized that the Earth was round by the fourth century BCE.
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Age of Exploration
The term has also been used for the beginning of contact between Europe and an area of the world, and the discovery of every country and little island.
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Modern discoveries
Experiments by JJ Thomson in 1897 led to the discovery of a fundamental building block of matter - electron. The discovery of the structure of DNA. The discovery of quasars.
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