Overview
- The only historiographic analysis of the history of earth and environmental sciences available
- Assessment of the state of the field from a set of distinguished international experts
- An essential tool for making an informed contribution to the scholarship in the history of earth science system
- Open access
Part of the book series: Historiographies of Science (HISTSC)
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About this book
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.
This is an open access book.
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Table of contents (14 entries)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair and Professor of History of Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of three books and editor of several volumes, and has published many articles and book chapters on the history of the earth and environmental sciences. His 2012 book Rereading the Fossil Record: The Rise of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline (University of Chicago Press) documents the development of paleobiology as a hybrid discipline, situated between geology, biology, and data science. His most recent book, Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene (University of Chicago Press, 2020), examines the history of cultural, political, and scientific extinction debates from the beginnings of paleontology in the early 19th century to the biodiversity crisis and Anthropocene critique of the early 21st.
Marco Tamborini teaches history and philosophy of science at the Technical University of Darmstadt and is member of the Junge Akademie | Mainz -– Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz as well as fellow at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy. His search focuses on the history and philosophy of biology, technoscience, and architecture from the 19th century to the present. He has published widely in international journals such as History of Science, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Journal of the History of Biology, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, NTM, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, etc. His current book project, entitled The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology (under contract with University of Pittsburgh Press), narrates the neglected contributions of the science of form to the recent development of evolutionary biology—and in particular, to the field of evolutionary developmental biology. Awards: 2017 Everett Mendelsohn Prize, 2020 honorable mention from the Italian Society of the History of Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Editors: Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, Marco Tamborini
Series Title: Historiographies of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92679-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Religion and Philosophy, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92679-3Due: 30 May 2024
Series ISSN: 2523-7748
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7756
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, Science, multidisciplinary, Climate, general, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Historiography and Method