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What are some concepts/discoveries in mathematics and science that found practical application years after they had been formulated/discovered?

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How did Aristotle explain the motion of living things moving by themselves, and falling of objects, with his hypothesis of all motion needing a cause?

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Were scientific discoveries ever inspired by art?

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Poisson's laws for adiabatic processes

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Understanding how Stern-Gerlach tests Bohr-Sommerfield Hypothesis

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On Bryce Seligman DeWitt's Name Change

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When was the geometric structure of a water molecule discovered?

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Did Einstein attribute a physical meaning to the affine connection in his unification models?

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Did quantum mechanics solve any open problems related to the optical properties of solids?

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