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Born September 16, 1876 • Galesburg • Illinois
Died October 17, 1947 (aged 71) • New Haven • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study climate • civilization
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Abbot, Charles Greeley
Charles Greeley Abbot
American astrophysicist
John Lloyd Stephens
American archaeologist
William H. McNeill
Canadian-American historian
Edward Herbert Thompson
American archaeologist
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Henri Frankfort
American archaeologist
Frank Hall Knowlton
American paleobotanist
Edward Robinson
American scholar
Isaiah Bowman
American geographer and educator
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
American geologist
Ellen Churchill Semple
American geographer
Jedidiah Morse
American geographer
Carl O. Sauer
American geographer
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist