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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
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Edward Robinson
American scholar
Isaiah Bowman
American geographer and educator
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
American geologist
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
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
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
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist