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Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences / / edited by Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, Marco Tamborini
| Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences / / edited by Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, Marco Tamborini |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2025.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (40 illus., 24 illus. in color. eReference.) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Collana | Historiographies of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Earth sciences Geography Climatology Environmental engineering Biotechnology Bioremediation Historiography History - Methodology History of Science Earth and Environmental Sciences Climate Sciences Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology Historiography and Method |
| ISBN | 3-031-40799-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part I. Big themes in historiography of earth sciences -- Reflections on the historiography of the earth sciences -- Philosophy and Earth Sciences -- Premodern earth and environmental science -- Lyell and Darwin as geologists -- Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism -- Part II. Formations -- Oceans -- Ice and Ice Age -- Planets -- Earthquakes -- Rivers -- Frozen earth -- Part III. Institutions and Practices -- Collections/museums -- Expeditions/Fieldwork in Earth Sciences -- Capitalism and imperialism in Earth Science -- Mining -- Data and Visual culture of geology -- Part IV. Perspectives -- Postcolonial perspectives -- Indigenous knowledge and perspectives -- Earth Systems Science -- Internationalism and the Earth & Environmental Sciences -- Labor and Credit -- Metaphors of Cyclicity in Earth and Human History -- Part V. Geographies -- The Mediterranean -- Earth Sciences and Latin America -- Earth Sciences and Africa -- Mining in Imperial Russia. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911031665303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond : Paradigms Defected / / edited by Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti
| Science Studies during the Cold War and Beyond : Paradigms Defected / / edited by Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 900 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Intellectual life - History World politics History, Modern Europe - History - 1492- Russia - History Europe, Eastern - History Soviet Union - History History of Science Intellectual History Political History Modern History History of Modern Europe Russian, Soviet, and East European History |
| ISBN |
9781137559432
1137559438 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Science Studies in East and West-Incommensurable Paradigms?; The Volume's Outline; The East and the West: Interconnections and Dialogues; Notes; Part I: Science Studies in the "West"; Chapter 2: Telegrams and Paradigms: On Cold War Geopolitics and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; The Long Telegram; The X Article; Conant, Kennan, and the Logic of Containment; National Security Council Report 68; The Kennan-Conant Consensus; The Russian Research Center; A Russian Research Center in Every Neighborhood
The Promise (and Problems) of Paradigms Notes; Chapter 3: "What's So Great About Science?" Feyerabend on Science, Ideology, and the Cold War; Two Fundamental Questions; Science, Modernity, and Ideology; Ideological Monism; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 4: Looking for the Bad Teachers: The Radical Science Movement and Its Transnational History; 1968 and the Radical Science Movement; American Radicals in Britain; The British Connections of an Italian Radical Science Scholar; Europeans in the USA (and David Noble); Conclusions: Hybrid Knowledge and the Hidden "Radical" Ancestors; Notes Chapter 5: Thomas Kuhn's Structure: An "Exemplary Document of the Cold War Era"? Fuller and Reisch on Kuhn; Kuhn and the Sociology of Science; Conservative Traits in Kuhn's Theory of Scientific Development; Kuhn's Encounter with Ludwik Fleck; Kuhn and the Sociology of Science; Kuhn and Herring; Appendix: Michael Polanyi-Another Source for Kuhn's Conservatism; Notes; Part II: Studies of Science Behind the "Curtain"; Chapter 6: Blind Isolation: History of Science Behind the Iron Curtain; Favorable Climate to Institutionalization in the Early 1970s Some Features of Historiography of Science in Hungary Hungarian Historians of Science Working Outside Hungary; Uneasy Relations with Philosophy; Atheoretical Attitude of the Historians of Science; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 7: The Science of Science (naukoznawstwo) in Poland: Defending and Removing the Past in the Cold War; The Polish Tradition in Science of Science; Soviet Pressures on Polish Science of Science; Co-Existence of "Old" and "New" Traditions in Polish Science of Science; The Bleak 1970s; The Re-Emergence of the Old Tradition and a Sudden Real Collapse of Research; Conclusion Notes Chapter 8: Scientists of the World, Unite! Radovan Richta's Theory of Scientific and Technological Revolution; In the Name of "Active Superstructure": Stalinist Theory of Knowledge and Social Sciences; Direct Productive Force and Post-Industrial Labor; Richta's Late Works: Science in Late Socialism; Conclusion: Radovan Richta's Theory of Science Between Stalinism and Late Socialism; Notes; Part III: National Agendas of the Studies of Science Beyond the "Two Blocs" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254783903321 |
| New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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