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Eratosthenes of Cyrene

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek scholar who served as chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria in the third centu...

Classical Ancient Greek Measurement

9.2 Excellent

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Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta was a fourteenth-century Muslim traveler and legal scholar from Tangier in present-day Morocco. Beginning in...

Travel Exploration Medieval Islamic

9.2 Excellent

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Carl Ortwin Sauer

Carl Ortwin Sauer was an American geographer whose work helped establish the Berkeley School of cultural geography. In h...

American Cultural 20TH Century Landscape

9.2 Excellent

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David Harvey

David Harvey is a British geographer and social theorist whose work connects urbanization, political economy, and Marxis...

20TH Century Urban Critical British

9.2 Excellent

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George Perkins Marsh

George Perkins Marsh was an American diplomat, philologist, and public thinker who lived from 1801 to 1882. His 1864 boo...

American 19TH Century Conservation Environment

9.1 Excellent

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Doreen Massey

Doreen Massey was a British geographer whose work reshaped debates about space, place, globalization, and regional inequ...

Space 20TH Century Place British

9.1 Excellent

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Yi-Fu Tuan

Yi-Fu Tuan was a Chinese American geographer whose work helped establish humanistic geography, an approach concerned wit...

20TH Century Place Humanistic Chinese American

9.1 Excellent

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Paul Vidal de la Blache

Paul Vidal de la Blache was a French geographer who lived from 1845 to 1918 and played a central role in establishing ac...

French 19TH Century Regional Human

9.0 Excellent

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Walter Christaller

Walter Christaller was a German geographer, born in 1893 and deceased in 1969, best known for formulating central place...

German 20TH Century Urban Spatial

8.9 Great

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Milton Santos

Milton Santos was a Brazilian geographer whose work examined territory, urbanization, economic dependency, and globaliza...

Space Development 20TH Century Brazilian

8.9 Great

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Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter was a German geographer whose work helped establish geography as a modern academic discipline during the 19t...

German 19TH Century Regional Human

8.8 Great

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Élisée Reclus

Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, writer, and anarchist who lived from 1830 to 1905. He wrote the 19 volume Nouvell...

French 19TH Century Regional Human

8.8 Great

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Torsten Hägerstrand

Torsten Hagerstrand was a Swedish geographer whose research reshaped the study of migration, innovation diffusion, and h...

20TH Century Swedish Diffusion Spatial

8.8 Great

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Neil Smith

Neil Smith was a Scottish-born geographer who worked in the United States and wrote about capitalism, cities, nature, an...

Scale 20TH Century Urban Marxist

8.8 Great

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Halford Mackinder

Halford Mackinder was a British geographer and political thinker who lived from 1861 to 1947. In his 1904 paper "The Geo...

19TH Century British Political Geopolitics

8.6 Great

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Friedrich Ratzel

Friedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer who lived from 1844 to 1904. He helped establish anthropogeogr...

German 19TH Century Political Human

8.2 Great

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Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville was a Scottish mathematician and science writer who lived from 1780 to 1872 and became known for synthes...

19TH Century British Synthesis Physical

8.1 Great

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Katharyne Mitchell

Katharyne Mitchell is a geographer whose research addresses migration, transnationalism, citizenship, education, and urb...

American Contemporary Education Diaspora

7.5 Good

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H.R. Mill

Hugh Robert Mill (1861-1950) was a British geographer and meteorologist whose work connected physical geography, rainfal...

19TH Century British Oceanography Rainfall

6.9 Fair

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Vaughan Cornish

Vaughan Cornish was a British geographer whose research examined coastal processes, waves, beaches, and other features o...

Scenery 20TH Century British Physical

6.6 Fair