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Geographers On E2

This is the Geographers Metanode, an index of writeups about geographers (including: geographers, cartographers, topographers, etc.) on E2. This is a subnode of the top-level Scientists node, and is a collaborative effort by the usergroup E2science. To suggest additions or alterations, please /msg liveforever or E2_Science.

• Louis Agassiz
  Developer of the theory of glaciation and ice ages.
• Sir Richard Francis Burton
  Explorer, linguist, cartographer, spy.
• Walter Christaller
  Developer of central place theory.
• Claudius Ptolemy
  Late Roman geographer whose gazeteer was the first to record the position of things on the Earth using latitude and longitude.
• Charles Darwin
  understood that place was a crucial shaper of the ecological forces driving natural selection.
• William Morris Davis
  Godfather of geomorphology.
• Eratosthenes
  The original geodesist.
• Alexander von Humboldt
  His travelogue of his explorations in the Americas included the first investigations of many important geographical concepts.
• Ellsworth Huntington
  Propounder of environmental determinism banished to a basement office at Yale.
• Engelbert Kaempfer
  
• Count Vladimir Köppen
  Devised the original (and best) scheme of classifying climates.
• Fred Kniffen
  
• Al-Khwarizmi
  Expanded Claudius Ptolemy's catalogue; his works helped the West rediscover geography as well as mathematics.
• Gerhard Mercator
  Cartographer and proponent of a map projection excellent for navigation, but poor for portraying the relative sizes of the continents.
• John Wesley Powell
  The first person to shoot the Grand Canyon whitewater.
• Arthur H. Robinson
  Turned cartography from drafting techniques into a scientific discipline.
• Carl Ortwin Sauer
  From his office at UC Berkeley, he influenced a whole generation of geographers with his emphasis on the total evolution of a region throughout history.
• Ellen Semple
  
• Strabo
  Hellenistic geographer, the only reason we know of several of his predecessors.
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen
  18th century German landowner who developed concepts of location rent which later led to central place theory.
• Derwent Whittlesey
  
• John Kirtland Wright
• Xu Xiake
  Ming Dynasty traveller who gave us the first complete picture of China, and one of the first descriptions of the karst process.

Ge*og"ra*pher (?), n.

One versed in geography.

© Webster 1913.