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Flourished c.600 BCE - c.501 BCE
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Eudoxus Of Cyzicus
Greek explorer
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Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
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Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
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Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
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David Thompson
English explorer
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Douglas Freshfield
British explorer
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Giacomo Doria
Italian naturalist and explorer
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
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Pytheas
Pytheas
Greek explorer
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Cosmas
Egyptian geographer
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Artemidorus
Greek geographer
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Panayotis Potagos
Greek physician and explorer

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