The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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  In 1827 Robert Brown noticed that floating grains of pollen, observed through a microscope, are constantly jittering around

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  Until 1756, when Joseph Black showed that fixed air (CO2) was consistently distinguishable from normal air, two samples of gas were thought…

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  he had recorded in a sealed note deposited with the Secretary of the French Academy in 1772

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  In 1774 he identified the gas thus produced as nitrous oxide and in 1775, led by further tests, as common air with less than its usual quant…

• Lavoisier identifies oxygen as a distinct gas whole source

  By 1777, probably with the assistance of a second hint from Priestley, Lavoisier had concluded that the gas was a distinct species, one of t…

• Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations published whole source

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• Cosmic microwave background radiation discovered whole source

  After 1965 and the almost fortuitous discovery of universal background radiation, there is only the big bang