Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1905 — The Word “Invention” [ARTICLE]

The Word “Invention”

The old, general meaning of the word “Invention” seems strange to modern eyes and ears. “Invention” signifies simply “finding,” though the meaning of discovery has been specialized away from It In modern speech. Thus Hooker wrote of “that judicial method which seemeth best for the Invention of truth.” When Burton wrote of “the Invention of a geometrical problem” be meant Its solution. In the seventeenth century the circulation of the blood was described us “the best and most useful Invention of this latter age.” and In the eighteenth century Dr. Willis was referred to as “the first Inventor of the nervous system."