Marianne Klemun – författare

Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences.Focusing on the practices, actors, and socio-cultural contexts that have shaped knowledge production, this volume offers fresh methodological insights and highlights the contributions of scientists, local experts, and non-specialist collaborators. Case studies range from Johann Reinhold Forster’s eighteenth-century mineralogical research to Cold War impact geology and interdisciplinary developments in ice core paleoclimatology.Targeted at scholars, students, and general readers, this book provides an innovative lens for understanding the historical dimensions of Earth sciences, bridging disciplinary boundaries and uncovering new perspectives on the production and exchange of knowledge.

This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments.

This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments.

This book presents recent achievements in interdisciplinary history of geological studies as well as new perspectives on the development of geological concepts. There is the substantive conceptual aspect, as the regional history of geology in and about Armenia and its uniqueness allow us to point out essential core lines of the history of earth sciences as a discipline in general. For instance, topics such as Noah's Ark and the Flood imply the relations to several phases of the history of geology from the early modern period to the twenty century. The volume brings up a wide spectrum of geological contents: it includes different concepts, cultures and topics of geological debate including diluvialism, antropomorphic approaches, cave studies, volcanology, racial science, alpinism, the Continental Drift, earthquake studies and petroleum research. Some of the contributions are based on cultural knowledge perspectives, some are interested in biographical research, others see history of geology through the lens of geologists.