Human Geography

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Human Geography

• A Brief History

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Classical Period

• Two traditions
• Literary
• To describe and catalogue the Earth
• Mathematical
• To determine the exact shape and size of the
  Earth
• To accurately map the Earth

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Herodotus484-425 BC

• Known as Father or History
• And Father or Lies
• The Histories

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Eratosthenes273-192 BC

• Father of Geography
• First to use term
• Geographica
• Calculated circumference of the Earth

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Other Important Greeks

• Hipparchus
• Designed system of latitude and longitude
• Ptolemy
• Created first index of locations using grid
• Strabo
• Created first Encyclopedia

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al Idrisi1099-1166 AD

• Court geographer to King of Sicily
• Geographia

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Mercator1512-1594 AD

• Cartographer
• Coined the usage of atlas for map collection

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Bernhardus Varenius1622-1650 AD

• German
• Universal geography
• Whole Earth
• Special or Particular Geography
• Regions

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Alexander von Humboldt1769-1859 AD

• Naturalist
• Cosmos
• Focused on humanitys interaction with nature

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Carl Ritter1779-1859 AD

• Organic view of geography
• The earth is a cosmic individual with a
  particular organisationthe exploration of this
  individuality of the earth is the task of
  geography
• Universal laws
• Anatomy of the Earth

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Ellen Churchill Semple1863-1932 AD

• University of Chicago
• Environmental Determinism
• Culture determined by environment

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Carl Sauer1889-1975 AD

• Rejected environmental determinism
• Landscape school
• possibilism

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Geographers The Next Generation