It belongs much more to the domain of art--art taking the precedence over science, as Helmholtz has so well shown in one of his popular lectures--and only after the invention has been made, science comes to interpret it.
Kropotkin asserts that invention is more aligned with art than science, as science often follows after the fact.
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