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Geognosy versus Geology: National Modes of Thought and Cultural Practices Concerning Space and Time in Competition. Natural science investigators at the end of the eighteenth century made use of conflicting labels to position their respective preferred fields of activity in the Earth sciences. This mania for labelling marked their break with natural science and the umbrella term ‘mineralogy’. In this...
The functions attributed to the geologist's hammer at different times and in different places form the focus of this paper. Although today the geologist's hammer is certainly not one of the most important instruments of geology, it has long exerted an almost magical power in the geological imagination, and it is still associated with the geologist's profession and used as a logo by scientific associations...
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