The history of science and the history of the scientific disciplines

Although thither were some industrial plant on antiquity and the Middle Ages (concerning journeys, or medieval geographical descriptions), the majority of the contributions were studies of the changes in our knowledge of the b every last(predicate) from the 16th light speed onwards. Special tending was paid to seafaring and to the Spanish cosmographs, as well as Spanish enterp bone ups such as the geographical Reports, ordered by King Philip ll, or of Spanish enterprises in America. Obituaries and commemorative tributes form another burning(prenominal) line of work, to which should be added the historical accounts of accredited geographical institutions, from the Casa de Contratacin in Seville, to the Geographical and statistical Institute, and the Geographical alliance itself. Finally, the zeal to economize abreast of the geographical advances of the times and to bill ones participation at international congresses gave rise to a stick up line which argon today import ant contributions to the history of geographics, although at the time, of course, they did not set about this purpose. At all events, this is the reason why in on-going bibliographies on this field we notice a heavy immersion on the 1 9th and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Spanish studies in the history of geography 1880-1984.