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RE: Discovered or invented

I always differentiated between discovery and invention as follows:

 

Discover: to find a natural phenomenon.  E.g. Herschel might have discovered iron ions’ sensitivity to light.

 

Invent:  to create something human-made.  E.g. using iron ions’ sensitivity to light Herschel invented the cyanotype process.  The key word here is process.

 

                        CHEERS!

                                    BOB

 

From: Tomas Sobota [mailto:tom@sobota.net]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:55 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Re: Discovered or invented

 

Joao,

Mike Ware asks himself the same question in this article, about the "invention" or "discovery" of cyanotype by Herschel.

Tom Sobota

Madrid, Spain

 

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Joao Ribeiro Globo <ribeiro.joao@globo.com> wrote:

Hi folks,
It's not alt but I'd like to know if a process is discovered by someone or invented by someone?
Take cyanotype for instance, it was discovered or invented?
Thanks in advance,
Joao



 



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