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It means becoming known to the scientific community and nothing more. To put it another way: Scientific knowledge is like wikipedia, and things only count as d
by oh_sigh 6y ago
It means becoming known to the scientific community and nothing more.
To put it another way: Scientific knowledge is like wikipedia, and things only count as discovered in this sense once they get an article written for them. That doesn't mean the person who wrote the article was the first person to ever know about something.