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Pausanias (geographer of ancient Greece)
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...Pausanias, fl. AD 150, traveler and geographer, probably b. Lydia. His Description of Greece is an invaluable source for the topography, monuments, and legends of ancient......
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Gannett, Henry
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......găn´ət), 1846–1914, American geographer, b. Bath, Maine, grad. Harvard...Hayden Survey. After 1882 he was chief geographer of the U.S. Geological Survey. Through his work as geographer of the U.S. censuses of 1880, 1890......
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Bowman, Isaiah
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...Isaiah Bowman (bō´mən), 1878–1950, American geographer, b. Waterloo, Ont., B.S. Harvard, 1905, Ph...first Yale South American expedition (1907), served as geographer-geologist on the Yale Peruvian expedition (1911......
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Hutchins, Thomas
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......Hutchins, 1730–89, American frontiersman, surveyor, and geographer, b. Monmouth co., N.J. He took part in the French...joined the Revolutionary forces. In July, 1781, he became geographer to the United States. In 1785 he took charge of the survey......
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atlas (in geography)
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......Although the first known atlas was compiled by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2d cent. AD, its modern form was introduced...the publication of Theatrum orbis terrarum by the Flemish geographer Abraham Ortelius. In 1595 his close friend Gerardus Mercator......
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Semple, Ellen Churchill
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...Ellen Churchill Semple, 1863–1932, American geographer, b. Louisville, Ky., grad. Vassar, 1882, and studied at the Univ. of Leipzig. A follower of the German geographer Ratzel, she helped develop the study of anthropogeography (or......
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Delisle, Guillaume
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...Guillaume Delisle (gēyōm´ dəlēl´), 1675–1726, French geographer and cartographer. His most important work is a world map (1700...Delisle is called the founder of modern cartography. He was geographer to Louis XV....
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Thompson, David
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...David Thompson, 1770–1857, Canadian geographer, fur trader, and explorer, b. London, England. In 1784 he...It was not until the 20th cent. that his importance as a geographer was recognized. See his narrative (ed. by J. B. Tyrrell......
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Kropotkin, Piotr Alekseyevich, Prince
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......əlyĬksyā´ĬvĬch krəpôt´kĬn), 1842–1921, Russian geographer and anarchist. He came from a wealthy princely family and...and scientific observations established his reputation as a geographer. After returning to European Russia, he became an adherent......
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Ortelius, Abraham
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...Abraham Ortelius (ôrtē´lyəs), 1527–98, Flemish geographer, of German origin. Next to his contemporary Mercator...cartographers; the 1587 edition had 103 maps. Ortelius was made geographer to Philip II of Spain in 1575. He produced a number......