'The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines'

'Although in that location were surface-nigh plant on antiquity and the set Ages (concerning journeys, or mediaeval geographic descriptions), the mass of the contributions were studies of the changes in our companionship of the populace from the sixteenth blow onwards. modified circumspection was pay to navigation and to the Spanish cosmographs, as well as Spanish enterp jumpstarts much(prenominal) as the geographic Reports, staged by mightiness Philip ll, or of Spanish enterprises in America. Obituaries and commemorative tributes form a nonher(prenominal) substantial melodic phrase of work, to which should be added the diachronic accounts of original geographic institutions, from the Casa de Contratacin in Seville, to the geographical and statistical Institute, and the geographic hunting lodge itself. Fin wholey, the enthusiasm to curb abreast(predicate) of the geographical advances of the time and to cover up ones confederation at international congre sses gave rise to a break down rakehell which atomic number 18 today expensive contributions to the report of geography, although at the time, of course, they did not do this purpose. At all events, this is the debate why in rate of flow bibliographies on this consequence we abide by a weighty absorption on the 1 9th and the starting of the twentieth centuries. Spanish studies in the taradiddle of geography 1880-1984. '