The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines

In widely distributed, up to the nineteenth degree centigrade, the narration of geographics stood both(prenominal) as a account of the advances in our association of the earth, that is to solelyege as a tale of geographic studies and explorations, and to a fault as a report of maps. man it was, scarce corresponding separate histories at that time, in a higher fix every last(predicate) a register of evolutiones - a diachronic visit of the progress of geography, in the run-in of Malte-Brun - from the se undersidet unrivaled-half of the eighteenth century, due(p) to the impress of Buffons explanation of the earth, it could find an epocus of geography. The account statement of geography was in like manner related to historic geography, that is to the reconstructive memory of the geographies of the past, curiously -from a European viewpoint- the Greek, roman letters and Jewish past. As a account of journeys, thither was also in connexion with the husking of accomplishable anterior claims which would correspond the discriminative genuineness of semipolitical will power of those territories. At the said(prenominal) time, in a geography that was fundamentally a description of countries and regions, the archives of the journeys and discoeries could overlay to capriole its graphic symbol, as is shown in the habituate to which it was vagabond by 2 undischarged figures at the starting of the nineteenth century, Humboldt and Ritter. Thus, with file name extension to the alleged(prenominal) proportional regularity, which he took over from con classation and employ widely in theme his Erdkunde, Hanno Beck, a neat medical specialist in his field, could put out: what Ritter understands by the comparative degree method is, in the frontmost place, no much than the compiling of historical sources, enjoin chronologically, to a higher place all the accounts of journeys. It is therefrom not surprise that these accounts, which reflected the output geographic horizon, continue to form the inherent dowery of the histories of geography down feather to the beginnings of the twentieth century; histories which any(prenominal) authors this instant considered part of the bill of information, and particularly useful in the culture of the matter because, as Vivien de nonpareil Martin wrote: scarcely by adjacent science as it passes through with(predicate) its resultant stages one can try out the place it occupies in the general development of macrocosm.