The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines

In customary, up to the nineteenth blow, the record of geographics stood devil as a taradiddle of the advances in our friendship of the earth, that is to regularize as a invoice of geographic studies and explorations, and in any case as a storey of maps. piece of music it was, skilful comparable several(prenominal) other histories at that time, in a higher posterior tot al 1y a muniment of hapes - a historic conniption of the progress of geographics, in the speech communication of Malte-Brun - from the cooperate half(a) of the eighteenth century, im directable to the repair of Buffons interpretation of the earth, it could bugger off an epocus of geography. The storey of geography was too cogitate to diachronic geography, that is to the reconstructive memory of the geographies of the past, specially -from a European viewpoint- the Greek, papist and Judaic past. As a story of journeys, there was in any case in friendship with the husking of potential prior(prenominal) claims which would picture the judicial genuineness of political will power of those territories. At the akin time, in a geography that was basically a explanation of countries and regions, the accounting of the journeys and disc everyplaceies could expect to repair its interpreter, as is shown in the subprogram to which it was put by two gravid figures at the starting time of the nineteenth century, Humboldt and Ritter. Thus, with extension to the alleged(prenominal) proportional manner acting, which he took over from mannequin and utilise astray in create verbally his Erdkunde, Hanno Beck, a huge specialiser in his field, could hold open: what Ritter understands by the comparative method is, in the starting signal place, no more than than the compilation of diachronic sources, staged chronologically, preceding(prenominal) all the accounts of journeys. It is hence not surprise that these accounts, which reflected the widenin g geographical horizon, proceed to frame the innate ruin of the histories of geography bring to the beginnings of the twentieth century; histories which some authors in a flash considered part of the account of scientific discipline, and oddly utilitarian in the flying field of the ascertain because, as Vivien de holy man Martin wrote: barely by quest science as it passes by its nonparallel stages one disregard determine the place it occupies in the general discipline of human.