Teru Miyake (Nanyang Technological University)
Seismology exhibits a high degree of interdependence between models, theory, and data. Information about the objects of investigation that is contained in seismic waves must be extracted through the use of models. This use of models comes with an inherent circularity, which raises two questions. First, how did seismology get off the ground in the first place? Second, how have justificatory worries about the circularity been dealt with in seismology? With these questions in mind, I will examine the history of development of models of earth structure and seismic sources from around the 1930s through the 1970s.
