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Born December 26, 1878 • Waterloo • Canada
Died January 6, 1950 (aged 71) • Baltimore • Maryland
Notable Works “Forest Physiography”
Giacomo Doria
Italian naturalist and explorer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Edward Robinson
American scholar
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
American geologist
Ellen Churchill Semple
American geographer
David Randall-MacIver
British-born American archaeologist and anthropologist
Jedidiah Morse
American geographer
Ellsworth Huntington
American geographer
Carl O. Sauer
American geographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
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