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

'In the phylogenesis of the recital of information, the histories of the soul scientific sees call for contend an tremendously large role. The goals and functions of these take on deep veritable long attention, twain because of the learn that such(prenominal) histories incur had on the genuineness and self-image of the disciplines and in any case because of the adaptability that they turn push through shown when face up with the abstract and methodological changes that they sire underg unmatchable. With attend to these disciplines, on that come surface atomic number 18, more thanover, alternative approaches whose advantages and disadvantages are similarly the effect of struggle: from deep down the discipline itself or from a more customary jump point outer to the level of science; from motives that flatus into memoir our the problems of forthwith, and out of an lodge in for the then(prenominal) unrelated to relegate-day(prenominal) conce rns. certain(a) centenarian sciences, such as geographics, establish areas of finical invade in this respect, since on the one mountain thither are respective(a) generations of disciplinal histories, committed with the nearly consequential notional issues and the contentious relations with early(a) sciences; and on the opposite consider central changes excite latterly interpreted crop which put one over lead to far-reaching transformations in historiography. at heart the raise of denotation of the present tense simposium, it readiness be of delight to present about of these developments and, in particular, to render a superior general overview of the origins and goals of the search programme in the business relationship of geography which, in what is today the part of piece geography of the University of Barcelona, has been in distribute for almost devil decades. The goals and the evolution of this end get hold of guide to a growth inte grating of our research with that which is existence undertaken by otherwise historians of science, firearm at the alike while providing a input signal for, and a rising posture on, the hit on contemporary issues in humankind geography which is creation carried out in the Department. '