Handbook of the historiography of the earth and environmental sciences editors: Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, Marco Tamborini

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aronova, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna), editor.

Sepkoski, David, 1972- editor.

Tamborini, Marco (Philosopher), editor.

Series:

Historiographies of science

Historiographies of science (HISTSC) 2523-7756

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth sciences--Historiography.

Earth sciences.

Environmental sciences--Historiography.

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

Living reference work

Place of Publication:

Springer International Publishing

[Cham, Switzerland] Springer Cham [2023]

Summary:

"This open access handbook aims to provide a definitive assessment of the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences, understood broadly. The volume is intended for a broad range of readers, including graduate students, other scholars, and scientists, both familiar with and new to the history of the earth and environmental sciences. Essays in the collection reflect on various problems in the study of the history of the earth sciences emphasizing crosscutting themes (such as economics, technology, politics, gender, etc.) and featuring innovative ways of framing historiographic perspectives. Since scholarship in the history of science is increasingly becoming entangled with environmental, economic and bureaucratic, political, gender, and other historical approaches, the volume as a whole emphasizes the breadth and diversity of scholarship on the earth and environmental sciences"-- Springer Nature Link

Contents:

Changing narratives in the history of oceanography / Antony Adler

Climate and the Little Ice Age / Gillen D’Arcy Wood

Cold War and Earth sciences / Ronald E. Doel

Collections and museums in the historiography of the Earth sciences / Irina Podgorny

Data, aesthetics, and visualizations of deep time / Marco Tamborini

Earth science and extractive capitalism in the age of empire / Lukas Rieppel

Earth sciences from the perspectives of science and technology studies / Caitlin D. Wylie

Expeditions and fieldwork in Earth sciences / Marianne Klemun

Histories of frozen Earth / Pey-Yi Chu

Historiography of Earth sciences in Latin America / Silvia Fernanda de Mendonça Figueirôa, Maria Margaret Lopes

Historiography of the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958) / Daniella McCahey

History of the Earth sciences from the South / Jarrod Hore

Indigenous knowledge and perspectives / Stephen Bocking

Land, mines, and bones : African history and deep knowledges of the Earth / Chris Manias

Mining and metallurgy in early Imperial Russia / Anna Graber

Mining and the formation of modern geology / Sebastian Felten

Philosophy of the Earth sciences / Derek D. Turner

Planets : A history of observing worlds and changing worldviews / Matthew Shindell

Regional geopolitics, French geography, and climatology in “Dry Spain,” eighteenth to twenty-first centuries : Birth of the “Mediterranean climate” / Alberto Celis, Lino Camprubí

Rivers in history : Systems, agents, and places / Etienne Benson

Thinking-and-doing history of geology : Reflections on working in two cultures over eight decades / Martin Rudwick

Women geologists 1780–1840 : Re-reading Charlotte Murchison / Adelene Buckland

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from home page (Springer Nature Link, viewed February 9, 2026)

ISBN:

9783030926793

3030926796

OCLC:

1401648253

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access