Landmark experiments, expeditions and observational studies: the specific, dated pieces of empirical work that tested or established a theory, distinct from the apparatus used to run them and from the theory or finding they produced. It excludes ongoing research programs with no single dated study behind them, and excludes instruments, which have their own category even when built for one experiment.
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mid-14c., "action of observing or testing; an observation, test, or trial"
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