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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • "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 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 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 (from Greek φυτόν, phytón = "plant" and γεωγραφία, geographía = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch...
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  • 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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