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a joint paper that brought together Wallace's abstract with extracts from Darwin's earlier, 1844 essay on the subject. The paper was also published that year in the Society's journal. Neither the public reading of the joint paper nor its publication attracted interest; but Wallace, "admirably free
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are similar with regard to multiple discovery. When two scientists independently make the same discovery, their papers are not word-for-word identical, but the core ideas in the papers are the same; likewise, two novelists may independently write novels with the same core themes, though their novels
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are announced annually—especially in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, and economics—increasingly, in the given field, rather than just a single laureate, there are two, or the maximally permissible three, who often have independently made the same discovery. Historians and sociologists have
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are made by scientists working independently of each other. Merton contrasted a "multiple" with a "singleton"—a discovery that has been made uniquely by a single scientist or group of scientists working together. As Merton said, "Sometimes the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a
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Multiple independent discovery, however, is not limited to only a few historic instances involving giants of scientific research. Merton believed that it is multiple discoveries, rather than unique ones, that represent the
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Sommer has introduced the term "nulltiple" to describe a scientific discovery that is suppressed or blocked from publication or dissemination via normal scientific channels, see
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of recombinant conceptualization (see above)—more broadly, of recombinant occurrences—that explains multiple discovery in science and the arts, also elucidates the phenomenon of
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The Age of Louis XIV: A History of European Civilization in the Period of Pascal, Molière, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza, 1648-1715
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Multiple independent discovery and invention, like discovery and invention generally, have been fostered by the evolution of means of
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of paradigms" has been posited, that describes a mechanism of "recombinant conceptualization". This paradigm predicates that a new
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show an increased incidence beginning in the 17th century. This may accord with the thesis of British philosopher
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and accelerated the process of recombinant conceptualization, and thus also of multiple independent discovery.
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Merton, Robert K., "Singletons and Multiples in Scientific Discovery: a Chapter in the Sociology of Science",
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Commonly cited examples of multiple independent discovery are the 17th-century independent formulation of
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that Leibniz had borrowed his calculus from Newton. In 1705 Leibniz, in an anonymous review of Newton's
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and public verification, and not just a matter of the lone issuing... idiosyncratic pronouncements."
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that states a Knowledge editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before."
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An example of a concept arising via the crossing of previously unrelated concepts may be
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Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
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The Idea of Historical Recurrence in Western Thought, from Antiquity to the Reformation
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In another classic case of multiple discovery, the two discoverers showed more
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level." Eamon Whalen, "The Man Who Saw It Coming: Rob Wallace warned us that
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of countries widely separated in time and geography. It is the recurrence of
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
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Lamb, David, and S.M. Easton, chapter 9: Originality in art and science,
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from envy or jealousy," had been content to remain in Darwin's shadow.
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Whalen, Eamon, "The Man Who Saw It Coming: Rob Wallace warned us that
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Lamb, David; Easton, S. M. (1984). "Originality in art and science ".
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Resistance to the Systematic Study of Multiple Discoveries in Science
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Multiple discoveries in the history of science provide evidence for
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power—and, thus, additional scientific validity—to the findings of
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that the 17th century was crucial in the creation of the modern
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are utterly critical to understand how things evolve at the
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independently of my own"; and the third edition of Newton's
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Philosophers at War: The Quarrel between Newton and Leibniz
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personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
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Lamb and Easton, and others, have argued that science and
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had exchanged information on their respective systems of
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arises through the crossing of pre-existing concepts and
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when he received a startling letter from a naturalist,
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defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar
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Hypothesis about scientific discoveries and inventions
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Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
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