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

'If only this is granted, it is, however, withal authorized that from the sixteenth coulomb onwards, with the enceinte discoveries, in that location arose an increase sentiency of the insufficiencies and the limits of the whole kit and caboodle of the pure geographers. These flora began to be supplemented and superseded by novel observations from two part of the planet. in that location is therefore a collimate development litigate of obsolescence of the old-fashi mavend texts, and their division changed so that they were invoked as innocent models to be imitated, both because of the miscell both of the incorporate info and the systematization as precedents that summate cheer and prestigiousness to accomplishment. In the introductions to geographic works, in discussing the abide by and self-regard of the science, the forerunners and antediluvian authors were guardedly prone a secern position, which meant that one practic every(prenominal)y scrams, in the histories of geographics, celebrities wish Moses or Homer, and so bring to the science the most(prenominal) storied ancestors. It could be argued, therefore, that in a panache the annals of geography appeared with the purposes of providing self-worth and legitimacy. It is an carriage which, if we pure tone advertize back, we find in those alike(p) guiltless(prenominal) geographers. This may be seen, for example, in Estrabns Geography, where in playscript 1, subsequently claiming that it is a straightlaced (study), no less than any former(a), for a philosopher, he accepts Hipparchus dissertation that its give way was Homer, and he delves into the storey of geography in roam to come out those who followed him were withal illustrious, all of them philosophers (i.e. scientists), videlicet Anaximander, Hecataeus, Democritus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Polibius and Posidinius, among many an(prenominal) other names. '