In Hubble's day, the 100-inch-diameter Hooker telescope mounted inside the dome was the most powerful instrument of discovery in astronomy.
In England, an Italian lawyer exiled for his liberal politics, Antonio Panizzi, found the venue for his thwarted "democratic impulse" in transforming the British Library catalog "from an inventory into an instrument of discovery".
He sees the history of science as a prelude to his years at the keyboard, and the computer as powerful an instrument of discovery as the telescope or microscope.
They are also, always, instruments of further discovery.
Bacon's induction was construed and conceived as an instrument or method of discovery.
Real crashes are usually the outcome of the invention of new financial instruments or the discovery of new places or ways to trade.
The pace of discovery, supported by new instruments and missions and innovative strategies by planet seekers, has been astounding.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research proposed three types of R & D instruments: discovery oriented research to develop new health products and interventions; innovation research to adapt efficacious but unaffordable interventions to make them cost-effective, and implementation R & D to achieve greater efficiency in the use of existing interventions [ 2].
On December 5th the scientists in charge of Kepler, a space telescope designed to look for such planets, confirmed their instrument's discovery of its first Earthlike world.
An instrument brought out of 200 years in hiding incites "an air of discovery," Keane says.
