What did sir francis bacon discover?
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oh yeah, he was the guy that discovered that thing like ummm, yeah, ok hold on while I cut & paste please....\n\nHe began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses. In the context of his time, such methods were connected with the occult trends of hermeticism and alchemy.
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Like a lot of things in science, it is hard to say exactly who first came up with this idea. \n\nHowever, probably the best contender is Professor Harry Hess of Princeton University. Hess noticed that the sediment near the mid-ocean ridges was much thinner, as though the sea floor there was newer than it was farther from the ridges. \n\nHowever, there are many others who played a part in solving this puzzle. Alfred Wegner, a German meterologist, is often credited with first proposing the theory of plate tectonics. Wegner noticed that the coastlines of South America and Africa fit together like pieces of a puzzle, but Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Antonio Snider-Pellegrini and others had noticed this before. Vine and Mathews observed the magnetic stripes on the sea floor, confirming Hess' theory.
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I think you mean who discovered smoking? and i think it was the aztecs
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It is a silly question  No one discovered the United States.  The United States is a political construct.  North America was discovered by John Cabot (I think), leaving aside the Vikings and Basque fishermen.  \n\nColumbus discovered the Caribbean.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) \nBritish physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.\nOh check out link on Peter Barlow too!
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Sir Hans Krebs discovered teh Kreb's cycle in cellular respiration. He used X-Rays of cells to see how cell respiration takes place
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(not sure if i believe this, but I came up with this while looking for an answer)\n\n"How was acupuncture discovered?"\nThe discovery of acupuncture is rather interesting. It was accidently discovered when a warrior, struck by an arrow in a battle, became aware of a numbness that had nothing to do with his wound.\n\nLater, it was discovered that it was not the size of the wound that mattered, but rather the precise points where the pin punctured that brought relief to the sufferer. This led to belief that a needle inserted at various points on the body when manipulated, could cure disease.
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here are several:\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=slv3&p=Georgia%27s+discovery
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it looks like somebody surprised on finding knowledge he didn't know it existed.
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First, the Europeans had known right along about Africa (which was a short hop across the Mediterranean) and about Asia, though their dealings with the Far East (India to China) came rather late, and were a result of contact with Muslims, esp. after the Crusades.\n\nAs for America, the discovers knew NOTHING about America (leaving aside for now the brief settlement from an earlier discovery by people from Iceland --by way of Greenland) when Columbus stumbled into it when trying to get to the Far East more quickly by crossing the Atlantic (rather than trekking by land or sailing around Africa).  This is, of course, why they were "discoverers"!  (Actually, he would have been a discoverer if he had found the route he was looking for rather than a new continent he wasn't looking for.)\n\nIronically, Columbus's critics --who said it was too far and too dangerous-- had a much more accurate estimate of the earth's circumference than he did!   \n\nFurther irony, Columbus never knew that he HAD discovered a new continent.  He died believing he had reached the edge of the "Indies" [hence they are called the West Indies to this day].   It was Amerigo Vespucci who first concluded, while exploring the coast and part of the interior of South America in a 1501-02 voyage, that this was not part of the Far East at all, but a new continent. (The widespread circulation of his letter on this point explains how he became associated with the discovery itself and why mapmakers put a version of HIS name on a map of the "new world" in 1507.)\n\nOne other consideration -- why didn't they sail out to attempt such things earlier?   Because it was only in the 15th century that Europeans (beginning with the Portugese) developed the navigational tools and skills to undertake such voyages.\n\n**Note to mon l -- none of this had ANYTHING to do with "falling off the edge of the earth".  All these folks knew (and the educated had known for many centuries) that the world was round (contra later anti-Catholic propaganda and a blunder in a popular 19th century biography of Columbus that has influenced the popular understanding ever since).  The obstacle the experts --including some fine navigators-- saw was the great DISTANCE to Asia -- and on that point, they were correct!
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It depends on what you mean by found. Because Venus is so bright, the first caveman who went outside at dusk or dawn surely noticed it. The ancient Greeks knew enough about it to know that it was different from other "stars". Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were also known to the ancients. This probably includes among many others the Chinese, Babylonian, and early American cultures which were relatively sophisticated. \nGalileo in 1610 was first to observe that Venus had a visible disk and that it had phases like the moon so perhaps he could be considered to have discovered the modern Venus. Captain James Cook made observations of a "Transit of Venus" in 1776-1779.
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Most textbooks (with their Euro-centric biases) will say that Columbus discovered the Americas.  The real answer is nothing; Columbus discovered nothing.  You can not discover a continent that is already inhabited.
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Francis Bacon - who most believe helped write/wrote many of Shakespere's best works.
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"In the week of January 7, 1610 Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's four largest satellites (moons): Io, Europa, and Callisto. He discovered Ganymede four nights later. "
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the first country to be discovered was west indies. hemant it's aditya.
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Copernicus and Galileo
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered it in 1772, and Joseph Priestly found it in 1774 (independently).  Scheele was a Swede, Priestly was an Englishman.