discovery
According to Meyer's Konversationslexikon , a discovery is the discovery of what was already there but not yet known, for example a new country, a new celestial body, a new animal, plant or mineral species as well as new facts and laws in the field of the various natural sciences.
The discovery, like the contradicting invention , may be accidental or deliberate. Intentional discovery always requires an excellent talent for making observations, experiments or speculations, and possibly also a great spirit of enterprise (for example to discover a new country or continent). When it comes to the history of the earth's discovery - viewed from a western cultural perspective - especially since Christopher Columbus , one speaks of an age of discovery .
Examples
- Discovery of America
- Discovery of the "true solar system" by Copernicus
- Discovery of nuclear fission
- Discovery of radioactivity
- Discovery of Tasmania
- List of discoveries of planets and their moons
See also
- Explorer
- Journey of discovery
- List of explorers
- Requirement for proof of a discovery in physics
literature
- Isaac Asimov : 500,000 years of inventions and discoveries. (Original title: Chronology of science and discovery , translated by Markus Schmid), 3rd edition, Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-141-4 (German first edition under the title: The knowledge of our world: Inventions and discoveries from the origin to zur Neuzeit , Bertelsmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-570-05256-7 ).
- Henning Aubel; Annette Zehnter (editor): What was the first time and when? Inventions, discoveries, developments. ADAC, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-89905-094-0 .
- Bernhard Berber: The resistance of scientists to scientific discoveries. In: Peter Weingart (Ed.): Sociology of Science I. Scientific development as a social process. A reader with a critical introduction by the editor. Frankfurt am Main 1972, pp. 205-221.
- Gerd Grohbrüg (Ed.): Groundbreaking. 100 pioneering acts and discoveries. Gondrom, Bindlach 2005.
- Patrick Robertson: What was the first time and when? An enjoyable lexicon (original title: The Shell Book of Firsts, translated by Waltraud Riess), Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-8000-3142-6 .
- Govert Schilling: Astronomy. The greatest discoveries. (Original title: Atlas van astronomische ontdekkingen , translated from the Dutch by Helmke Mundt), Kosmos, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-440-11538-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Discovery . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 669.
