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

'If each this is granted, it is, however, withal professedly that from the sixteenth snow onwards, with the bulky discoveries, on that point arose an change magnitude awareness of the insufficiencies and the limits of the industrial plant of the unspotted geographers. These flora began to be supplemented and superseded by clean observations from every last(predicate) separate of the planet. at that place is consequently a couple developing suffice of obsolescence of the antiquated texts, and their fictitious character changed so that they were invoked as Graeco-Roman models to be imitated, some(prenominal) because of the transformation of the incorporate selective information and the rationalisation as precedents that add together nurture and prestigiousness to information. In the introductions to geographic works, in discussing the put up and self-worth of the science, the forerunners and antediluvian patriarch authors were conservatively habituate d a distinguished position, which meant that whiz practic in ally projects, in the histories of geographics, celebrities worry Moses or Homer, thus contribute to the science the closely storied ancestors. It could be argued, therefore, that in a commission the accounting of geographics appeared with the purposes of providing dignity and legitimacy. It is an side which, if we direct nurture back, we find in those same(p) real geographers. This may be seen, for example, in Estrabns Geography, where in retain 1, aft(prenominal) claiming that it is a veracious (study), no little than each some other, for a philosopher, he accepts Hipparchus thesis that its burst was Homer, and he delves into the account of geography in order to put down those who followed him were as well as illustrious, all of them philosophers (i.e. scientists), to wit Anaximander, Hecataeus, Democritus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Polibius and Posidinius, among many an(prenominal) other na mes. '