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premature discovery: a standalone construct

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History of science

a discovery whose meaning cannot be linked to accepted knowledge at the time and so is ignored until later.

In history of science, premature discovery refers to a discovery whose meaning cannot be linked to accepted knowledge at the time and so is ignored until later. This meaning comes from Stent (1972) in Scientific American.[1]

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  1. Stent, G. S. (1972). Prematurity and Uniqueness in Scientific Discovery. Scientific American, 227(6), 84-93. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1272-84

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