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Also Known As Jean-Iona Gottman
Born October 10, 1915 • Kharkiv • Ukraine
Died February 28, 1994 (aged 78) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study megalopolis
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Reclus, Élisée
Élisée Reclus
French geographer
Paul Vidal de La Blache
Paul Vidal de La Blache
French geographer
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville
French cartographer
André Duchesne, detail from an engraving
André Duchesne
French historian
Philippe Buache
French geographer and cartographer
Conrad Malte-Brun
Danish author
Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
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
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder
British political geographer
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian