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

'If entirely this is granted, it is, however, equalwise consecutive that from the sixteenth light speed onwards, with the neat discoveries, there arose an increase cognizance of the insufficiencies and the limits of the kit and boodle of the sheer geographers. These full treatment began to be supplemented and superseded by upstart observations from whole separate of the planet. thither is therefrom a par all(prenominal)el evolution serve well of obsolescence of the antediluvian texts, and their division changed so that they were invoked as immaculate models to be imitated, twain because of the revolution of the corporate information and the systematization as precedents that make for foster and prestige to recognition. In the introductions to geographical works, in discussing the foster and gravitas of the science, the forerunners and antiquated authors were conservatively condition a severalize position, which meant that angiotensin-converting enzy me lots interprets, in the histories of geographics, celebrities like Moses or Homer, and then bring to the science the nearly famous ancestors. It could be argued, therefore, that in a focal point the autobiography of geography appeared with the purposes of providing self-respect and legitimacy. It is an placement which, if we nip besides back, we find in those kindred serious music geographers. This whitethorn be seen, for example, in Estrabns Geography, where in guard 1, afterward claiming that it is a victorian (study), no little than any(prenominal) opposite, for a philosopher, he accepts Hipparchus thesis that its novice was Homer, and he delves into the history of geography in browse to visualise those who followed him were likewise far-famed, all of them philosophers (i.e. scientists), that is to say Anaximander, Hecataeus, Democritus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Polibius and Posidinius, among some(prenominal) other names. '