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most influential of the new map makers
Gerardus Mercator
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produced first modern atlas
Abraham Ortelius
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Geographia Generalis
Bernhardus Varenius
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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
Immanuel Kant
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mathematical, physical and political principles are discussed along with physical phenomena
Conrad Malte-Brun
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Cosmos, humans were part of nature. Dominated geography in the 19th century
Alexander von Humboldt
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Die Erdkunde, concerned with relationships description as laws. Dominated geography in the 19th century
Carl Ritter
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viewed geography as the science of the earth's surface, chorological/regional approach
Ferdinand von Richthofen
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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
chorology
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founder of human geography, first to focus on human-made landscape
Friedrich Ratzel
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father of geography, calculated circumference of the earth
Eratosthenes
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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
Hipparchus
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geographer and anarchist who was barred from France and imprisoned, published a descriptive systematic geography of the world
Elisee Reclus
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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
Paul Vidal de la Blanche
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first European to climb Mount Kenya, successful explorer, geography and history were closely related
Halford J. Machkinder
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founded Landschaftskunde
Otto Schluter
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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
Carl Sauer
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