Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences

Name: Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
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By Elena Aronova

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Part I. Big themes in historiography of earth sciences.- Reflections on the historiography of the earth sciences.- Philosophy and Earth Sciences.- Premodern earth and environmental science.- Lyell and Darwin as geologists.- Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism.- Part II. Formations.- Oceans.- Ice and Ice Age.- Planets.- Earthquakes.- Rivers.- Frozen earth.- Part III. Institutions and Practices.- Collections/museums.- Expeditions/Fieldwork in Earth Sciences.- Capitalism and imperialism in Earth Science.- Mining.- Data and Visual culture of geology.- Part IV. Perspectives.- Postcolonial perspectives.- Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.- Earth Systems Science.- Internationalism and the Earth & Environmental Sciences.- Labor and Credit.- Metaphors of Cyclicity in Earth and Human History.- Part V. Geographies.- The Mediterranean.- Earth Sciences and Latin America.- Earth Sciences and Africa.- Mining in Imperial Russia.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 544
Release Date:: 2025-10-02
Publication Date:: 2025-10-02
Publisher:: Springer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 3031407989
ISBN13:: 9783031407987
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1071 g
Height:: 16 cm
Width:: 24.1 cm
Thickness:: 3.3 cm

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