Index

accretionary lapilli, 86, 88, 91, 92, 94, 99

adaptation/adaptationism (biological), 22, 147, 158, 407, 428, 436

aesthetic, 6, 68, 332, See emotions, emotions

affect, 6, 12, 42, 50, 52, 363, 364, 374, 376

Alvarez, Walter, 61, 62, 65, 98, 99

ambiguity, 447, 451, 458

Amor, Ken, 89, 91, 96, 239

analogy, physical, 453, 454, 455, 458, 460, 462

ancestor (biological), 212, 215, 405, 408, 412, 420

Andersen, Line, 23, 52, 156, 207, 216, 274, 310, 334, 372, 397, 398, 416, 452, 453, 460

anecdote/s, 19, 35, 242, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366

Anekdota, 351, 352

Ankeny, Rachel, 340, 359

anthropology, 7, 14, 18, 125, 208, 268, 291

Arber, Agnes, 193, 197

archaeology, 8, 16, 19, 39, 117, 122, 123, 187, 189, 207, 208, 293

archive/s, 132, 176, 185, 186, 188, 194, 195, 197, 201, 208, 229, 292, 328, 342

argument, 22, 84, 304, 331, 333

argumentation theory, 424, 427

artificial intelligence, 50, 317, 318

asperities (geological), 107, 117

astronomy, 69, 70

astrophysics, 70, 433

atlases, 192, 200, 201

audience, 212, 220, 290, 335, 358, 371

Austen, Jane, 144, 448

automation, 7, 309, 310, 312, 313, 315, 316, 317, 325, 329

auxanometer, 149, 151

background knowledge, 242, 451, 452, 453, See tacit knowledge

backstory, 22, 23, 74, 233, 269, 405, 409, 414, 416, 420

bacteriology, 291, 296

Bal, Mieke, 145, 151

Bar, Moshe, 374, 381

Barrett, Lisa Feldman, 374, 381

Bauman, Richard, 373, 375, 379

Bay of Bengal, 165, 167

Beadle, George, 247, 248, 255, 257

Beatty, John, 23, 38, 45, 84, 147, 149, 208, 216, 217, 242, 273, 331, 353, 417

beginnings and endings, 272, 330, 331, 333, 334

Benjamin, Walter, 277, 365

Berry, Dominic, 8, 36, 43, 83, 124, 125, 207, 222, 311, 332, 336

Bhattacharyya, Debjani, 21, 25, 47, 242, 291, 453

Bildungsroman, 143, 146, 157, 158, 159

biochemistry, 44, 335, 363

biology, 8, 10, 11, 14, 38, 45, 62, 189, 193, 438

bolide impact, 62, 71

botany, 50, 143, 147, 187, 193, 194, 195, 196

Bouvart, Michel-Philippe, 241, 353

Boyer, Robert, 319, 321

burial/s, 126, 128

case histories (also case reports, case studies), 35, 39, 229, 233, 242, 290, 304, 358, 359, 361, 450

catastrophism, 61, 70, 77

categorizing, 18, 22

causation, 22, 61, 65, 66, 70, 71, 74, 75, 77, 78, 83, 95, 174, 185, 189, 207, 235, 238, 239, 248, 251, 272, 277, 297, 304, 371, 372, 374, 426, 431, 447, 448, 449, 461

Caytoniales, 186, 194, 195

central subject, 215, 217, 221, See protagonist

character/s (in story), 37, 46, 62, 69, 174, 247, 250, 252, 257, 258, 259, 282, 334

chemistry, 9, 15, 39, 40, 41, 54, 106, 208, 267, 273, 275, 276, 282, 284

chronicle/s, 62, 83, 124, 125, 127, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 149, 207, 210, 223, 328, 329, 331, 332, 333, 335, 336, 339, 340, 341, See chronology

chronology, 8, 16, 41, 61, 67, 68, 74, 83, 122, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 136, 137, 146, 151, 207, 236, 251, 281, 287, 294, 295, 296, 297, 300, 301, 305, 330, 333, 355

circumnutation, 155, 159

classical narratology, 39, 46

Cleland, Carol, 76, 206

clues, 100, 208, 232, 233, 235, 354, 413

cognition, 35, 42, 45, 47, 260, 273, 310

coherence, 43, 85, 123, 160, 206, 240, 242, 334, 338, 430, 436

colligation, 12, 25, 40, 124, 176, 243, 291, 305, 447, 452

comets, 61, 65, 77

common ancestry, 209, 210, 212, 221, 222

community, 9, 23, 73, 77, 83, 85, 247, 249, 255, 258, 262, 263, 311, 323, 377, 439

complexity, 18, 119, 148, 284, 287, 289, 294, 342

computation, 104, 112, 132, 311

computational linguistics, 447, 450, 451, 452, 461

configuration/configuring, 12, 18, 40, 41, 53, 289, 296

confocal microscopy, 337, 338

consilience, 66, 76, 120, 436

context, 279, 355, 356, 361, 362, 365

contextual knowledge, 447, 450, 451, 459

contingency, 105, 144, 146, 148, 149, 151, 169, 217, 268, 277, 278, 279, 284, 289, 372, 417, 424, 426, 434, 447

contrastive and contingent thickenings, 278, 285

counterfactual/s, 70, 73, 74, 84, 91, 419, 421, 435, 447

courts, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 178, 182

Crasnow, Sharon, 16, 34, 45, 46, 208, 231, 249, 416, 425, 426, 434, 435, 461

credibility, 160, 172, 353

cultural relativism, 315, 321

Currie, Adrian, 84, 117, 189, 250, 436, 461

cyclone/s, 21, 25

cyclonology, 166, 167, 176, 180

Dalrymple, Alexander, 170, 173

dance of agency, 146, 153, 160

Danto, Arthur, 83, 207, 217

Darwin, Charles, 10, 17, 48, 67, 98, 143, 157, 175, 295, 408, 410, 417

Darwin, Francis, 148, 151

Darwinism, 45, 405

Daston, Lorraine, 152, 182, 192, 311

data, 104, 105, 109, 237, 249, 251, 304, 336

description, 15, 83, 95, 96, 100, 168, 174, 195, 196, 206, 223, 275, 294, 296, 330

diagram/s, 40, 41, 51, 70, 73, 74, 93, 94, 111, 119, 144, 166, 167, 177, 178, 194, 199, 206, 207, 210, 215, 218, 271, 289, 453, 456, See representation

dialectical requirement, 424, 427, 441

Dick, Stephanie, 7, 19, 43, 310, 329, 451

dinosaurs, 61, 62, 65, 77

discourse, 34, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 53, 61, 67, 68, 252, 254, 371

discovery, 175, 358, 359, 361, 362

earth sciences, 62, 70, 106

earthquake, 17, 18, 49, 104, 176, 236

East India Company, 165, 167, 169, 170

ecology, 19, 160, 187, 200

economics, 10, 26, 106, 399

electromagnetism, 454, 456, 458, 460

electrotonic state, 454, 458, 458, 460, 462

embedded narratives, 16, 45

embodiment, 455, 460

empire, 23, 164, 169, 188, 270, 289, 291, 320

emplotment, 70, 153

Engelmann, Lukas, 18, 21, 25, 170, 189, 290, 378

engineering, 8, 25, 335, 338, 340, 342, 408, 451

Ephrussi, Boris, 247, 255, 257

ethnology, 125, 292

evolution, 10, 11, 14, 17, 22, 26, 41, 45, 74, 130, 143, 156, 158, 185, 186, 187, 196, 242, 340, 341, 342

exaptation, 143, 148, 151, 156, 158, 159

experience, 351, 357, 358, 360, 363, 366

experientiality, 37, 447, 448, 449, 452, 455, 460

experiment, 146, 247, 253, 261, 281, 283, 284, 318

expertise, 9, 23, 25, 74, 172, 194, 198, 207, 273, 276, 288, 290

explanation, 50, 82, 84, 91, 100, 185, 189, 193, 197, 206, 212, 218, 229, 239, 242, 287, 289, 299, 330, 331, 356, 405, 419, 420, 428

extinction, 42, 70

fabula, 67, 68, 71, 72, 76, See story/discourse distinction

facts, 6, 124, 128, 131, 248, 261, 290

factual narratives, 33, 35, 250, 252, 253

factuality, 38, 46, 330

Faraday, Michael, 437, 447, 454, 455, 456, 457, 457, 462

fault, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 115, 117, 118

field and subfield formation, 328, 329, 332, 335, 338, 343

fieldwork, 70, 73, 86, 137, 170

filigreed tree, 210, 212, 214, 215, 218

Fisher, Walter, 426, 437

fitness, 405, 409, 412

flatfish, 45, 242, 405, 406, 409

Flis, Ivan, 373, 375, 386

Fludernik, Monika, 252, 449, 455

fluorescent proteins, 338, 341

focalization, 38, 39, 46, 47, 48, 49, 157

Fodor, Jerry, 372, 381

following and unfollowing, 6, 9, 15, 17, 331

forecasting, 164, 167

formal language, 9, 10, 20, 268, 274, 284, 314, 364, 447, 448, 450, 451, 452, 453, 460, 460, 461

formal representation, 274, 447, 454, 457, 458, 460

formalism, 61, 309, 323, 434

fossil/s, 15, 16, 21, 42, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 84, 185, 186, 189, 190, 191, 194, 196, 214, 241

framework, 351, 352, 353, 355, 357, 363, 365, 366

Frodeman, Robert, 84, 85

fruit fly, 38, 247

Galison, Peter, 152, 192

Gallie, Walter Bryce, 149, 418

genealogy/genealogies, 8, 10, 11, 124, 125, 130, 133, 134, 136, 137, 216, 222, 328, 329, 330, 332, 333, 335, 336, 339

general_purpose technology, 3, 7, 26

genetics, 17, 130, 255, 335

Genette, Gérard, 41, 45, 253

genre, 11, 48, 146, 153, 160, 250, 287, 290, 291, 305, 331, 344, 373, 374

geodetic data, 109, 114

geography, 10, 17, 133

geological narratives, 85, 95

geology, 9, 14, 18, 22, 26, 36, 37, 42, 45, 61, 62, 66, 69, 70, 82, 86, 100, 167, 187, 214, 230, 236, 238, 275, 284, 328, 343, 365, 395, 433, 453

Goodchild, J.G., 86, 94, 95

Gould, Stephen Jay, 67, 147, 148, 407, 424, 425

GPS data, 105, 114

graphs, 10, 291, See representation

Griesemer, James R., 83, 206, 333

Griffiths, Devin, 11, 17, 39, 48, 175, 189, 295, 335, 418

Hacking, Ian, 311, 315, 430

Haines, Elizabeth, 21, 50, 146, 178, 208, 241, 301

Hajek, Kim M., 6, 18, 39, 47, 67, 217, 252, 333, 334, 392, 393, 418, 449

Herman, David, 35, 52, 96, 393, 400, 452

Hill, Ernest, 292, 293, 296, 298, 301

histoire, 67, 252

historicization, 426, 429

historiography, 329, 332, 343

Hoffmann, Roald, 267, 277

Hopkins, Andrew, 9, 18, 22, 26, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42, 45, 51, 62, 106, 189, 207, 215, 238, 240, 329, 334, 365, 395, 435, 453

Horace, Darwin, 148, 151

horizon of expectations, 51, 160

Hull, David, 85, 218

Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery, 357, 366

Hurwitz, Brian, 19, 178, 241, 242, 250, 268, 355, 360, 449, 459

Huss, John, 15, 17, 18, 42, 67, 73, 106, 146, 215, 254, 329, 428

hypotheses, 6, 83, 84

hypothesis, 229, 232, 233, 235, 238, 239, 240, 241, 247, 248, 249

idiographic, 61, 66, 70, 77

illustrations, 143, 146, 153, 156

images, 94, 129

imagination, 31, 33, 35, 51, 144, 146, 324, 428, 455

impact craters, 65, 89, 240

impactoclastic, 92, 94

incipient stages, 409, 410, 414

inclusion and exclusion, 332, 338

inference, 20, 21, 73, 249, 301, 304

integrating narratives, 50, 104, 106, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 143, 210, 237

interpretation, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 91, 97, 98, 99, 100, 123, 125, 186, 190, 192, 193, 195, 200, 201, 207, 229, 241, 289, 299, 372

iteration, 233, 243

Jajdelska, Elspeth, 23, 51, 54, 249, 297, 363, 399, see

joint inversions, 115, 116

justification, 425, 430

justificatory insufficiency, 430, 432

just-so story/stories, 331, 424, 425, 431, 433, 434, 435, 436, 440, 447

juxtaposition, 13, 178

kangaroo, 10, 26

Kipling, Rudyard, 170, 425

Kranke, Nina, 10, 17, 26, 41, 44, 51, 83, 197, 301, 453

laboratory, 170, 195, 201, 250, 258, 280, 283, 285, 288, 296, 311

labour, 322, 324

language, 32, 50, 51, 217, 310

Laszlo, Pierre, 40, 269, 272

law of storms, 169, 172, 176, 180

Lawrence, T. E., 186, 199

Leonelli, Sabina, 338, 341

Lewontin, Richard, 407, 424

life-history, 143, 146, 157

lineage, 72, 208

lines of force, 447, 453, 454, 456, 457, 458

literature, 6, 344

Lloyds, 165, 168, 169

logic, 447, 449, 452, 461

Lowson, James Alfred, 292, 293, 295, 297

Lyell, Charles, 67, 98

machine language, 451, 459

MACSYMA system, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 324, 325, 326

mapping, 185, 188, 191, 199, 200, 201, 235, 289, 291, 301, 304

Marine Biological Laboratory, 67, 428

Marine Court of Enquiry, Calcutta, 164, 168, 171, 180

marine insurance, 164, 166, 168, 169

marsupial tree, 221, 222, 223

Marvin, Ursula B., 92, 98, 99

material overlap, 333, 339

mathematics, 7, 9, 10, 13, 17, 19, 23, 41, 43, 52, 287, 309, 329, 372, 391

Maxwell, James Clerk, 447, 453, 454, 455, 457, 458, 461, 462

means of construction, 332, 333, 338

measurement, 17, 194, 289

mechanism/s, 71, 230, 231, 234, 235, 238, 243, 311, 359

Medel, López, 165, 175

medicine, 7, 19, 35, 192, 241, 288, 291, 438

memory, 50, 174, 237, 277, 314, 353, 355

metaphor, 31, 32, 125

meteor/meteorite, 22, 82, 92

Meunier, Robert, 7, 17, 19, 36, 38, 41, 44, 45, 46, 49, 51, 65, 112, 114, 146, 157, 212, 237, 262, 272, 274, 275, 375, 380, 399, 437, 439, 462

micro-histories, 143, 145, 156, 305

micro-narrative, 11, 295

migration, 206, 207, 214, 215, 217, 218, 221, 224, 293

Mivart, St. George, 147, 409

Miyake, Teru, 5, 17, 38, 41, 49, 50, 71, 134, 176, 236, 237, 243, 295, 329

model, 9, 17

model evolution, 106, 113, 114, 115, 118, 119

modelling, 67, 69, 92, 104, 105, 106, 111, 133, 287, 335, 372, 380

modernity, 269, 292

modes of knowing, 447, 451, 453, 458, 461, 461

modularity, 309, 318, 319, 325

molecular biology, 335, 341, 342, 453

Morgan, Mary, 33, 35, 36, 40, 48, 49, 51, 106, 124, 149, 166, 176, 182, 243, 251, 254, 267, 289, 333, 355, 357, 392, 399, 427, 434, 438, 447

morphology, 67, 73, 195, 196

Moses, Joel, 313, 318

multi-scalar, 185, 189, 197, 199, 201, 202

Museum of Economic Geology, 168, 169

museums, 11, 73, 218

narratee, 253, 259, 260, 375

narrating, 253, 254

narration, 39, 67, 145, 146, 165, 167, 169, 178, 189, 331, 355, 376

narrativity, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 47, 330, 331, 340, 344, 426, 449, 461

narratology, 6, 32, 33, 34, 36, 43, 250, 252, 447, 448, 449

narrator/s, 46, 47, 49, 151, 157, 250, 252, 258, 260, 379, 399, 416

natural history, 15, 293, 328

natural language, 9, 20, 177, 274, 314, 364, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 458, 461

Nemesis hypothesis, 61, 65, 66, 70, 71, 77

new mechanists, 425, 426

nomological model of explanation, 424, 426, 435, 440

nomothetic, 61, 67, 70, 77, 428

nutshell narrative, 351, 357

O’Donnell, Michael, 356, 357, 364

objectivity, 123, 206, 310

observation, 4, 100, 105, 164, 167, 174, 178, 249, 260, 340, 351, 361, 365

Olmos, Paula, 24, 36, 83, 331, 407, 430, 436, 447, 461

Oort cloud, 61, 65

ordering, 13, 15, 17, 22, 39, 44, 46, 61, 67, 68, 69, 83, 84, 96, 106, 127, 130, 149, 166, 167, 178, 195, 248, 251, 254, 259, 271, 272, 289, 291, 295, 331, 333, 340, 419

orientation to the world, 333, 334

palaeobotany, 185, 186, 187, 189, 194, 197, 201

palaeontology, 14, 66, 69, 70, 71, 73, 99, 189, 214, 328

palaeobiology, 42, 67, 68, 428

pandemic, 18, 25

paper technology, 284, 290

parameterizing, 41, 112

particulars, 353, 360

Paskins, Mat, 9, 10, 23, 38, 39, 40, 54, 73, 166, 176, 194, 215, 355, 357, 450, 462

pattern/s, 70, 71, 74, 78, 166, 167, 169, 180, 181, 194, 234, 254, 305, 354, 397, 398, 401, 438, 447, 452, 456, 460

pedagogy, 169, 178, 182, 186, 192, 193, 194, 199, 200, 206, 392, 402, 451

perception, 50, 372, 377, 457

performativity, 23, 371, 373, 399

periodicity, 16, 61, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 76, 77, 78, 156, 293

perspectives, 351, 353, 354, 365

philosophy of history, 12, 25, 328, 332, 418

photography, 21, 188, 194

physics, 11, 41, 208

physiology, 149, 248, 363

Pickering, Andrew, 146, 153

Piddington, Henry, 25, 164, 165, 166, 169, 171, 173, 174, 175, 180

Piketty, Thomas, 448, 462

plague/s, 25, 287

plant/s, 17, 38, 186, 189

plant/ss, 186, 190, 195

plausibility, 16, 20, 22, 23, 66, 74, 83, 135, 165, 172, 174, 175, 181, 231, 354, 409

plot/s, 6, 34, 62, 63, 159, 175, 333, 449

pluralism, 8, 315, 326

politics, 309, 310, 311, 313, 314, 316, 319, 321, 322, 326

polyphony, 47, 170, 291

Porter, Ted, 269, 284

practice-world, 44, 249, 252, 253

precision, 122, 123

Priest, Greg, 10, 144

process ontologies, 267, 280

process tracing, 16, 45, 117, 208, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 242, 243, 434

processes, 83, 84, 88, 90, 92, 94, 95, 99, 280

processual, 155, 279, 281

processual thickening, 280, 282, 284

Procopius, 351, 352

proofs, 23, 320, 323

protagonists, 37, 38, 215, 217

psychoanalysis, 39, 45

psychology, 35, 39, 50, 54, 192, 373, 374

Puckett, Kent, 49, 54

punchline, 353, 356, 364

puzzles, 12, 133, 216, 218, 234, 236, 297

QED Manifesto, 309, 311, 319, 323, 324

QED system, 309, 310, 311, 312, 315, 316, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325

ratiometry, 338, 340, 341

Raup, David, 62, 63, 65, 67, 70, 71, 77

Read, H.H., 82, 84, 100

reading, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 23, 24, 35, 39, 45, 48, 50, 51, 52, 61, 68, 74, 167, 181, 207, 209, 214, 372, 391, 392, 396, 399, 451, 452, 453

reason-giving practice, 424, 426, 427, 432, 441

reasoning, 3, 5, 31, 33, 35, 38, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 82, 83, 84, 91, 241, 254, 274, 287, 288, 317, 351, 352, 392

recipe, 21, 178, 258, 358, 396

reconceptualization, 146, 371, 372, 375, 378, 381, 383, 385, 386

reconfiguring, 143, 176

reconstruction, 104, 105, 113, 295, 301, 393, 394, 399, 401, 402

recurrence, 61, 66, 69, 77, 78

reductionism, 429, 430, 431

reference model, 116, 118

reflexivity, 333, 334, 341

reframe, 351, 352, 358

relationality, 329, 332, 335, 336

representation, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 18, 26, 35, 48, 49, 73, 104, 106, 110, 111, 113, 127, 165, 166, 175, 197, 206, 214, 215, 252, 254, 273, 301, 309, 312, 328, 372, 374, 385, 392, 459

results, 247, 251, 259, 261

reticulate, 146, 185, 189, 193, 194, 195, 197, 199, 201, 202

retroposon, 209, 212, 213, 223

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg, 194, 200, 249

rhetoric, 6, 267, 331

Richards, Robert J., 82, 100

Riemann hypothesis, 35, 391

Robinson, Robert, 269, 274

root logic, 309, 312, 316, 322, 323, 325

Russian formalism, 54, 67

Ryan, Marie-Laure, 16, 35, 37, 38, 51, 251, 261, 333

Sachs, Julius, 149, 152, 418

scaffold/s, 10, 12, 19, 117, 124, 125, 128, 129, 207, 210, 223

scale/s, 15, 145, 153, 188, 191, 195, 197, 199, 202

Schubert, Lenhart, 451, 452

Schyfter, Pablo, 336, 342

scientists’ accounts of their research, 3, 7, See research narratives

script breach, 398, 400

script/s, 23, 52, 54, 96, 156, 274, 334, 372, 393, 394, 397, 401, 402, 416, 447, 449, 452, 453, 460

seismology, 49,