While no great discovery in physical science is attached to his name, few men did as much as he to awaken enthusiasm and experimental investigation into science in his time.
Jenner's great discovery of the value of vaccination against small-pox came just before the nineteenth century opened.
They learned enough to justify a return to Panamá with the report of a great discovery, the importance of which would justify an application to the Spanish Government for some valuable concession to Pizarro and his partners.
It led him to a great discovery, which he was not seeking for; and he was far enough right to make his error more emphatic.
The Italian physician was indeed on the verge of a great discovery; but he halted in his course and lost his opportunity.
The very simplicity of this expression is its supreme title to represent a great discovery in natural science.
They were so new that none of the workers in acoustics could think that Ohm had made a great discovery.
It was no great discoverythat we see many things as truths which we cannot prove.
For more than thirty years this great discovery, which was to banish at least half the evils which afflict humanity, has been sleeping undisturbed in the grave of oblivion.
All sorts of explanations have been deemed necessary to account for Columbus' great discovery at this time.
He {404} heard that instruments which had been magnetized could be used for surgical operations without producing pain and having tried some experiments in the matter he announced this as a great discovery.
Here was the germ of a great discovery, the use of boiled water, evidently with some experience behind it, and yet it was to remain untried, its true value unappreciated until four centuries later.
For when the machine stopped in front of the house in Trenton where she was visiting, and the young people ran up the steps to greet her, Marjorie was still radiant from her great discovery.
I told you you were on the eve of a great discovery, didn't I?
Here the speaker's eyes flashed with the light of a great discovery.
As soon as Overtop had placed the two envelopes side by side, his eyes lighted up with the pleasure of a great discovery.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great discovery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
