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History & Philosophy of Discovery Dataset

How astronomy became modern science — the thematic histories of discovery, the methodologies of discovery (the scientific method, paradigm shifts, instrumentation-driven discovery), and the philosophy of science (realism, falsifiability, evidence, reproducibility).

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Version: 1.0.0
Entities: 22
Last generated: 2026-06-29
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Checksum: — (published at release)

Sample (22 of 22)

Name	Type	ID
Big Science	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:big-science
Falsifiability	Philosophy of science	philosophy_of_science:falsifiability
Instrumentation-Driven Discovery	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:instrumentation-driven-discovery
Measurement Uncertainty	Philosophy of science	philosophy_of_science:measurement-uncertainty
Observational Bias	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:observational-bias
Open Science	Philosophy of science	philosophy_of_science:open-science
Paradigm Shifts	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:paradigm-shifts
Replication & Reproducibility	Philosophy of science	philosophy_of_science:replication-and-reproducibility
Scientific Realism	Philosophy of science	philosophy_of_science:scientific-realism
Scientific Revolutions	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:scientific-revolutions
The Copernican Revolution	History of discovery	history_theme:the-copernican-revolution
The Data & AI Revolution	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:the-data-and-ai-revolution
The History of Black Holes	History of discovery	history_theme:the-history-of-black-holes
The History of Cosmology	History of discovery	history_theme:the-history-of-cosmology
The History of Exoplanets	History of discovery	history_theme:the-history-of-exoplanets
The History of Gravitational Waves	History of discovery	history_theme:the-history-of-gravitational-waves
The History of Radio Astronomy	History of discovery	history_theme:the-history-of-radio-astronomy
The History of Spectroscopy	History of discovery	history_theme:the-history-of-spectroscopy
The History of the Telescope	History of discovery	history_theme:the-history-of-the-telescope
The Nature of Evidence	Philosophy of science	philosophy_of_science:the-nature-of-evidence
The Scientific Method	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:the-scientific-method
Theory & Observation	Discovery methodology	discovery_methodology:theory-and-observation

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