Geo People

most influential of the new map makers

produced first modern atlas

Geographia Generalis

logic and metaphysics, emphasized that the subject involved the description or classification of facts in their spatial text, advocate of geography as a regional study

mathematical, physical and political principles are discussed along with physical phenomena

Cosmos, humans were part of nature. Dominated geography in the 19th century

Die Erdkunde, concerned with relationships description as laws. Dominated geography in the 19th century

viewed geography as the science of the earth's surface, chorological/regional approach

the study of the causal relations between geographical phenomena occurring within a particular region. a Greek term revived by 19th century German geographers as a synonym for regional geography

founder of human geography, first to focus on human-made landscape

father of geography, calculated circumference of the earth

devised grid system of longitude and latitude, first to solve the problem of how to map the curved surface of the earth on a flat surface, produced first index of places/gazetteer

geographer and anarchist who was barred from France and imprisoned, published a descriptive systematic geography of the world

most important French geographer, established geographie Vidalienne or la tradition Vidalienne. concerned with relations between humans and land, the evolution of human landscapes and the description of distinctive local regions

first European to climb Mount Kenya, successful explorer, geography and history were closely related

founded Landschaftskunde

his landscape school focuses on human cultural groups' transformation of the physical geographic landscape over time, effectively introduced the various European ideas the North America in 1925 and elaborated on them