Sentence examples for order of discovery from inspiring English sources

Variable stars are named in order of discovery within each constellation by the letter R to Z (providing they do not already have a Greek letter).

These were, in order of discovery, TH White's Merlin, JRR Tolkien's Gandalf, Susan Cooper's Merriman Lyon and Ursula K Le Guin's Ged, more commonly known as Sparrowhawk, true names being a serious business in Earthsea.

(The term alternative is something of a misnomer because this pathway almost certainly evolved before the classical pathway. The terminology reflects the order of discovery, not the evolutionary age of the pathways).

With a bad case of mass amnesia, our trio of stag-do dorks have to find out how they came to be in possession, in order of discovery, a chicken, a tiger, an unknown baby, a missing tooth, a police car with an angry nude man in the boot, and a missing best mate whose imminent marriage is the reason for the hi-jinks.

The numbers were assigned in the order of discovery without distinction of types.

I think that he treats it is as prior in the order of discovery, in the sense that initially it seems not to call for explanation.

He's an artist of paradox; the gloriously exceptional characters around whom "The Son of Joseph" is built and the exquisite morality that they discover aren't the work of dogma or of imposed order but of discovery and self-discovery.

Roman numerals are assigned to the first 49 known moons in order of their discovery.

Collections of small brightly colored pebbles and leaves, bits of wood and other objects — the yield of those walks — skirted the edge of the studio, all sitting in the order of their discovery.

After all, the temporal order of the discovery of \ e\) and of the articulation of \(h\) and \ k\) may well be an entirely accidental historical contingency.

If that is so, then dialectic plays a significant role in the order of philosophical discovery: we come to establish first principles in part by determining which among our initial endoxa withstand sustained scrutiny.