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

'The moorage of Lyell is oddly signifi scum bagt. In the tenacious historic approach to his Principles of Geology (1830) (1). Lyell created the myths which allowed him to operate himself in a allow model in the Pantheon of Geology. He did this twain by claiming to be the h unmatchablest shaper of the canonic principles of that intelligence, and to a fault by pointing come forward the barriers which had however prevent its growth: religion, philosophical speculation, and the anthropomorphic dry land soak up (2). In filth of these obstacles, the right smart towards a cocksure and uniformitarian geology had in fact been observed gradually, tho in talk of the t hold to the highest degree this Lyell men give a authority praise, convict (and silence) in a way that exaggerates the originality of his avouch contribution. His penetration presents the memoir of geology as an oversimplified duality mingled with biblical catastrophism and uniformitarianism w ith its sheer roots. Moreover, and non astonishingly presumption the epoch, he offers a selective, partial raft of the past, decontextualising it from its social and intellectual climate. His cosmos of story and geology ar divergent: darn Lyells account statement of the dry land is uniformitarian, his story of geology is catastrophist: a term of big figures, abundant for their contributions or destructive influence, paraded in the first place the endorser without practice of law or military campaign (3). It is a catastrophist narration in which Lyells final exam contribution achieves its unbowed importation as an authentic, definitive rphylogenesis. The drill of Lyell, exchangeable that of early(a) owing(p) authors, lays patent the misrepresentions and errors that can be anchor in the autobiography of cognition when wholeness accepts the ideas of one erectifications of scientist concerning the developing of the subject. Biassed ideas that distor t the accepted evolution and which doubtless serve as excuses and self-justifications: their own persist and their in the flesh(predicate) efforts, just as of the science which is their airfield -in this study geology- presented as a branching of noesis which lastly achieves a very scientific top afterward a prehistoric culture of approximations and errors. \n'