Earth Sciences History
CONTENTS
Letters from the President, Treasurer, Secretary and Editor’s Introduction , II-IV
Marianne Klemun, Kristan Cockerill, Maddalena Napolitani, John Diemer
Special Issue of Papers from the STRATI 2019 Meeting in Milan, Italy
History of stratigraphy, travels and mining: Some Italian perspectives, 1
Ezio Vaccari
An overview of the development of stratigraphy in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries: From Steno to Arduino, 2-12
Ezio Vaccari
Theories of the Earth and ‘Plutonism’ in the Introduzione alla Geologia by the Italian geologist Scipione Breislak (1811), 13-26
Andrea Candela
The geological travels of Achille de Zigno in the Dolomites during the spring of 1846 , 27-41
Guido Roghi
Mining pencils, sculpting graphite: The Siberian expedition of J.-P. Alibert (1844–1857) and the evolving 19th century European visual and material culture related to earth sciences, 42-68
Maddalena Napolitani
Arturo Issel (1842–1922): The man from Genoa behind the Tyrrhenian Stage of the Pleistocene, 69-85
Kathleen Histon
The contribution of the De Filippi Expedition (1913–1914) to the geological knowledge of the Aksai Chin Region (Western Himlaya), 86-100
Simone Fabbi, Jingeng Sha, Riccardo Cestari and Stefano Dominici
Volunteered Papers
The society, the savants, and the scientist: A glimpse at the Société Géologique de France through the activity of the founding member Nérée Boubée (1830–1860), 101-117
Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa
Some characteristics and causes of changes in the rate of discovery of new minerals since 1800, 118-139
Carl N. Drummond
Early European women in seismology, 140-152
Elisa Buforn
The South does also exist: The Continental Drift debate in the account of the South-African paleobotanist Edna Plumstead, 153-175
Mariana Ferrari Waligora
Gordon Lyall Paver (1913–1988) and 42nd Geological Section, South African Engineer Corps: Military geology and geophysics in World War II supporting British Army operations: Part 1, The East African Campaign 1940–1941, 176-197
Edward P. F. Rose
Notes on Contributors, 198–200
Guidelines for Authors, 201–202
How to Join the History of Earth Sciences Society, 203
Manuscript Submission
Journal Scope:
Manuscripts are welcomed in the following areas:
- Historical work on all areas of the earth sciences — geology, geography, geophysics, oceanography, paleontology, meteorology, and climatology.
- Historical studies — biography, history of ideas, social history, and histories of institutions, organizations, and techniques.
- Eloges and book reviews.
Submit manuscripts by email to the Editor, John Diemer, jadiemer@charlotte.edu
Submit Book Reviews to Paul Lucier, paullucier2@gmail.com
Please follow the Author Guidelines closely and contact the editor with any questions. If a manuscript is accepted for publication, copyright will be transferred to the History of Earth Sciences Society. Therefore, Earth Sciences History cannot consider material that is under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Authors are respectfully requested to make a contribution toward page charges, but publication is not contingent upon contributions. Color figures/plates can be included in the online edition at no charge to the author, but if color is desired in the print version, page charges will apply; contact the Editor for current rates and payment information.
