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Born January 8, 1863 • Louisville • Kentucky
Died May 8, 1932 (aged 69) • West Palm Beach • Florida
Subjects Of Study environmental determinism
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
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William Morris Davis
American geographer
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Edward Robinson
American scholar
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Isaiah Bowman
American geographer and educator
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
American geologist
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Jedidiah Morse
American geographer
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Ellsworth Huntington
American geographer
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Carl O. Sauer
American geographer
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Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
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Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
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Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Engraving of six astronomers, with Hipparchus seated at center and, from left to right, Galileo, Johannes Hevelius, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Ptolemy standing, each holding scientific instruments.
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder
British political geographer
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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist