Titlebook: Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences; Elena Aronova,David Sepkoski,Marco Tamborini Living reference work

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Planets: A History of Observing Worlds and Changing Worldviews,g of the planets, their origins, natures, movements, and relationship to Earth has changed considerably over time. An historical examination of these changes, beginning with a few examples from the ancient world and then focusing primarily on the European and American contexts from the medieval worl

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Rivers in History: Systems, Agents, and Places,een nature and culture, between environment and technology, and between the humanities and the natural sciences. These works have served as models not only for historical research on rivers but for research on landscapes and environments in general. At the same time, a number of recent river histori

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Expeditions and Fieldwork in Earth Sciences,to the training and development of geology? These are the main questions that this chapter seeks to answer. In the first section of the contribution, we will explore the phenomenon of travel and expeditions from a general point of view. Then we will analyze it on three levels. First, the practice of

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Mining and the Formation of Modern Geology,s long been noted by historians of science. This historiographical chapter uses Vaccari and Morello’s survey as a starting point. It revisits the idea that an eighteenth-century conjuncture of mining and scholarship brought about modern geology, tracing some strands of this narrative into the period

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Data, Aesthetics, and Visualizations of Deep Time,logy and geology to access, and eventually work with the earth’s deep past. First, I discuss how paleontologists visualize and sort data in the field; second, I examine the practices used to illustrate and validate knowledge about extinct animals; third, I explore what function visualizations play i

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Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives,s people, once excluded, now participate across a range of environmental affairs. Understanding how and why this has occurred requires attention to a complex history of scientists and others constructing ideas about Indigenous knowledge. A variety of scholars, including historians of science, enviro

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Historiography of Earth Sciences in Latin America,s. The historical studies of various aspects of Earth sciences bring countless references. They have been present since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the writings of the Portuguese Jesuits or chroniclers. Latin America continues to participate in the historiographical production of Eart