HOHIMER wrote:
Not to put too fine a point on the subject but, fire was not discovered. Like light, it has always been there (in human existence) in one form or another. We simply started to understand some of its attributes and assigned it a name. Same for air, rain, clouds, gravity, wind, rocks, moon, etc.
Ah, but it was discovered - in the sense of its use. --- "to find out, see, or learn of especially for the first time"