Ecology
Humans have always felt the urge to explain all events occurring around and to understand them. Geography was born from that need, as a science that helps to comprehend how the Earth Works and the reasons for all phenomena happening in your community and in the whole world.
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Explanation
The word geography comes from the Greek geo that means Earth and graphos that means description; so we are going to talk about the Earth description and all that means.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who invented the word geography, and was the first to demonstrate that Earth was round and to calculate its dimensions. Later, the Roman philosopher and historian Strabo, was the first to write a work called Geographica where he recognized the Aristotelian works as a basis, and described some of the main geographical concepts (Sampieri, 2006).
Meanwhile, the Greek philosopher Ptolemy compiled most of Aristotle’s and Strabo’s work, and based on them, he wrote some world maps and elaborated an important work called Geographia, which included ideas of the planetary order that he obtained from his own research and observations from the celestial vault.
Other important investigations and progresses for this science, were given by the travels of Marco Polo in the 12th century, the crusades, and of course, the Spanish and Portuguese explorations, since these travels brought very relevant information that was added to the existing corpus of valuable resources.
The modern concepts of Geography did not arrive but until the 19th century, when the real scientific exploration began, including those territories discovered in the 16th century. Afterwards the works of the Prussian Alexander Von Humboldt appeared; who was considered the father of modern geography, and studied the natural factors regarded as a whole, and also included historical
Keep on reading and learning the importance of studying this science and the relationship it has with you.
Explanation
The word geography comes from the Greek geo that means Earth and graphos that means description; so we are going to talk about the Earth description and all that means.
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who invented the word geography, and was the first to demonstrate that Earth was round and to calculate its dimensions. Later, the Roman philosopher and historian Strabo, was the first to write a work called Geographica where he recognized the Aristotelian works as a basis, and described some of the main geographical concepts (Sampieri, 2006).
Meanwhile, the Greek philosopher Ptolemy compiled most of Aristotle’s and Strabo’s work, and based on them, he wrote some world maps and elaborated an important work called Geographia, which included ideas of the planetary order that he obtained from his own research and observations from the celestial vault.
Other important investigations and progresses for this science, were given by the travels of Marco Polo in the 12th century, the crusades, and of course, the Spanish and Portuguese explorations, since these travels brought very relevant information that was added to the existing corpus of valuable resources.
The modern concepts of Geography did not arrive but until the 19th century, when the real scientific exploration began, including those territories discovered in the 16th century. Afterwards the works of the Prussian Alexander Von Humboldt appeared; who was considered the father of modern geography, and studied the natural factors regarded as a whole, and also included historical