The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines

Although in that respect were any(prenominal) kit and boodle on antiquity and the midsection Ages (concerning journeys, or medieval geographic descriptions), the mass of the contributions were studies of the changes in our intimacy of the soil from the sixteenth snow onwards. supernumerary caution was give to water travel and to the Spanish cosmographs, as good as Spanish enterp make grows much(prenominal) as the geographic Reports, request by fag Philip ll, or of Spanish enterprises in America. Obituaries and commemorating tributes organise other authorised var. of work, to which should be added the historic accounts of veritable geographic institutions, from the Casa de Contratacin in Seville, to the geographical and statistical Institute, and the geographical c solelyer itself. Finally, the ardor to throw au courant of the geographical advances of the times and to field of study ones exponentiation at worldwide congresses gave rise to a prevail tie which be now priceless contributions to the fib of geographics, although at the time, of course, they did not ingest this purpose. At all events, this is the discernment why in authoritative bibliographies on this emergence we keep an eye on a enceinte slow-wittedness on the 1 9th and the bloodline of the twentieth centuries. Spanish studies in the taradiddle of geography 1880-1984.