A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human...
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The Geographer (Dutch: De geograaf) is a painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1668–1669, and is now in the collection of the Städel museum...
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paw-SAY-nee-əs; Greek: Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his Description of Greece (Ἑλλάδος...
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Ptolemy (redirect from Ptolemy (geographer))
c. 170 AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three...
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Royal Geographical Society (redirect from Institute of British Geographers)
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography...
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Geography (section Notable geographers)
place names. Although many geographers are trained in toponymy and cartology, this is not their main preoccupation. Geographers study the Earth's spatial...
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Australian Geographer (The Australian Geographer until 1975) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Geographical Society of New...
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The Canadian Geographer (French: Le Géographe Canadien) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal, published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Canadian...
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map-making traditions of earlier cultures, particularly the Hellenistic geographers Ptolemy and Marinus of Tyre,: 193 combined with what explorers and merchants...
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Bureau of Intelligence and Research (redirect from Office of the Geographer)
on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The Office of the Geographer and Global Issues (INR/AN/GGI) produces intelligence analysis and assessments...
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Geographer is an American synth-pop/indie rock band founded in 2007 by Mike Deni in San Francisco, California, United States. Deni has described his sound...
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Human geography (redirect from Human geographer)
topics. The Association of American Geographers was founded in 1904 and was renamed the American Association of Geographers in 2016 to better reflect the increasingly...
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Brill's New Pauly, Brill, 2010: M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd cent. AD Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller: Geographi graeci minores, Carolus...
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Geography of China (redirect from Chinese geographer)
Geography and climates of China China has great physical diversity. The eastern plains and southern coasts of the country consist of fertile lowlands and...
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Historical geography (redirect from Historical geographer)
by geographers to explain history'. Its author, J. B. Mitchell, came down firmly on the side of geography: 'the historical geographer is a geographer first...
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The Professional Geographer is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal publishing short articles on all aspects of geography. The journal is published...
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Ravenna Cosmography (redirect from Ravenna Geographer)
The Ravenna Cosmography (Latin: Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia, lit. "The Cosmography of the Unknown Ravennese") is a list of place-names covering the...
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Urban geography (redirect from Urban geographer)
geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban geographers and urbanists examine various aspects of urban life and the built environment...
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Political geography (redirect from Political geographer)
activities. This association found expression in the work of the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel, who in 1897 in his book Politische Geographie, developed...
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Economic geography (redirect from Economic geographer)
between the environment and the economy (tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction), and globalization. There are...
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Cultural geography (redirect from Cultural geographer)
different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as academic study firstly...
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accents. The article was based on a 2012 paper published in Australian Geographer, and despite referencing the Australian Museum entry on drop bears in...
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The following is a list of notable human geographers. Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), one of the founders of modern geography, he traveled extensively...
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Social geography (redirect from Social geographer)
"géographie sociale") originates from France, where it was used both by geographer Élisée Reclus and by sociologists of the Le Play School, perhaps independently...
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David Harvey (redirect from David Harvey (social geographer))
David W. Harvey FBA (born 31 October 1935) is a British Marxist economic geographer, podcaster, and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography...
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Patrocles Nationality Greek Occupation(s) Geographer, general, author Years active c. 312 – 270 BCE...
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Maritime geography (redirect from Maritime geographer)
Maritime geography is a collection of terms used by naval military units to loosely define three maritime regions: brown water, green water, and blue water...
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Phytogeography (redirect from Plant geographer)
Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, phytón = "plant" and γεωγραφία, geographía = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch...
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Robert J. Smith (anthropologist) (redirect from Robert J. Smith (geographer))
Robert John Smith (1927–2016) was an American anthropologist who taught at Cornell University, specializing in the anthropology of Japan. In 1974, he was...
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The epithet "Bavarian Geographer" (Latin: Geographus Bavarus) is the conventional name for the anonymous author of a short Latin medieval text containing...
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