Hauling data. Anthropocene analogues, paleoceanography and missing Paradigm shifts

Historical Social Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 37-66

  Rosol, Christoph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Computer modeling; Heuristic strategies of the earth sciences; History of the earth sciences; Proxy data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979819416     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12759/hsr.40.2015.2.37-66     Document Type: Article

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