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carl RITTER
[germany:1779-1859] |
-Cultural Geographer
-"Die Erdkunde" 19 volumes about africa + asia |
19 volumes
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Alexander VON HUMBOLDT
[prussia:1760-1859] |
-Modern Geography
-1797, traveled S.america then to mid america -COSMOS |
1797
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PTOLOMY
[rome:2nd century AD] |
-Astronomer
-map projections -gazetteer |
gaz
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mary SHELLEY
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wrote frankenstein in 1818
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frank
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isaac CLINE
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involved in hurricane in Galveston TX,
- head of Galveston Area - home was shelter to 50 other relatives. wife died. he + children survived |
galveston
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wyvilled THOMPSON
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-HMS challenger
-1st to reach ANARCTIC CIRCLE and cross the ice barrier |
hms
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thomas MALTHUS
[england:1766-1834] |
-POPULATION
-theology background -wrote "ESSAY ON PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION" thinks pop. will be controlled in 4 ways -war -diseases -famine -natural disasters |
4 major ways
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johann VON THUNEN
[germany:1783-1850] |
-economic geographer
-landlord in estate of germany -AGRICULTURAL PROFIT -wrote "ISOLATED STATE" (farm to market/the RING theory)[pg357] |
the ring theory
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william morris DAVIS
[america:1850-1934] |
1st noted geographer/geologist
-focus on GEOMORPHOLOGY(land form features) -cycle of erosion theory [youth, maturity, old age] -founded the AAG *Assocation of American Geographer- 1904 |
cycle of erosion
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carl o. SAUER
[missouri ozarks:1889-1975] |
-cultural geographer(human activity and environment)
-president 2 times for AAG -wrote "AGRICULTURAL ORIGINE + DESPERSAL" [domestication of plants and animals.] |
prof. at berkley, liked visual learning.
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ellen SEMPLE
[louisvilled, KY:1868-1932] |
1st female geographer
-ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHER *thinks religion helped shaped environment -wrote "INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT" -1911 -president of AAG in 1921 |
female
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walter CHRISTALLER
[germany:1893-1960] |
wrote "CENTRAL PLACES OF SOUTHERN GERMANY"
-the central place theory: spatial urban theory of urban center. (the hexagon patter/hierarchial urban pattern) pg404 |
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fred b. KNIFFEN
[michigan:1900-199] |
founder + father of FOLK GEOGRAPHY
-ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHY 125 books over folk, housing, bridges, etc... |
studied under sauer
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jack DANGERMOND
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introduced ESRI
*Environmental Systems Research Institute |
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