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Borderline Geography Game
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Geography Coloring Book
Geography Coloring Book


Mapping the World by Heart
Mapping the World
by Heart


If the World Were a Village
If the World
Were A Village


Name That Country Game
Name That
Country Game

The Global Puzzle
The Global Puzzle


My First Amazing Wold Explorer/History Explorer Bundle CD
My First Amazing Wold Explorer/History Explorer Bundle CD


Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts
Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts




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NOTABLE GEOGRAPHERS

Leo Africanus
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Jared Diamond
Eratosthenes
Richard Hakluyt
Thor Heyerdahl
Cosmas Indicopleustes
Pomponius Mela
Gerardus Mercator
Claudius Ptolemaeus
Strabo
David Thompson

The Geographer by Diego Velazquez, Giclee Print
The Geographer
by Diego Velazquez,
Giclee Print

A geographer is a scientist who studies the Earth's physical environment and human habitat, as well as the relationships of human and wildlife ecologies, weather and climate patterns, economics, and culture.

Historically a geographer was involved in cartography, or map making. Modern geographers often find employment with government agencies and private environomental firms to resolve environmental problems.

Spanish portrait artist Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) painting The Geographer, illustrates the rising influence and prominence of scientific enquiry in Europe at the time.



Atlas Geographique (c.1900) Art Print
Atlas Geographique
(c.1900)
Art Print

Atlas Geographique illustrates the art and science of geography as perceived at the beginning of the 20th century. Surrounded by the natural world, representatives of the Americas, Middle East, Asia and Africa, gather about a seated figure of Europe who instructs the other continents and peoples from the book in her lap. Empiricism, anyone?

Geography Coloring Book
Frontispiece to
Atlas Novus,
Giclee Print

The Atlas Novus, also known as Atlas Major, was completed in 1665. It was a comprehensive world atlas, conceived by Willem Blaeu and compiled by his son Joan (Johann) Blaeu. The original full title was ‘Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus’ consisted of eleven volumes, in Latin, and containing 594 maps. • History of Posters

Wonder where the word “atlas” comes from?

Atlas the Titan, Giclee Print
Atlas the Titan,
Giclee Print

Atlas the Titan - In the mythological battle between the Titans and the Olympians, the victor Zeus condemned the defeated Atlas to keep the Earth and Sky separated forever. Atlas is depicted holding up the celestial sphere and standing on the Earth.

Learning this story is a great relief to my childhood question of ‘what was Atlas standing on if he was holding up the Earth?’

And guess what? - this isn't the “Atlas” that lent the name to the “bound collection of maps” that we call an ‘atlas’ today. The use of the word atlas can be traced back to the cartographer Mercator who dedicated his collection of maps to the mythological King Atlas of Libya, though he did not include the name in his title. Oh - and then there are the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa.


Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus

Leo Africanus
born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi
b. c. 1492; Granada, Spain (raised in Fez)
d. c. 1554?; Tunis?

The Moor and diplomat Joannes Leo Africanus is best remembered for his Descrittione dell’Africa (Description of Africa). It has been suggested that Leo Africanus was the inspiration for Shakespeare's Othello.

Leo Africanus; A Man Between Worlds - BBC video


Bust of Agrippa, Photographic Print
Bust of Agrippa, Photographic Print

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
c. 63 BC - 12 BC, Roman Empire

Agrippa, a Roman general, statesman, and architect, was also a geographer, charged with doing a survey of the Roman Republic/Empire by Augustus.

Aquaduct Constructed Under Agrippa, Son-In-Law of Emperor Augustus Giclee Print
Aquaduct,
Giclee Print


He is also noted as improving the civic infrastructure of Rome which included aquaduct and the sewer system repairs, and the designing first Pantheon (pan = all + theon = gods) which was destroyed by fire in 80 AD.

FYI - Agrippa's legacy includes his grandson Caligula, and great-grandson Nero.

Augustan Rome


Jared Diamond

(no poster available)

Jared Diamond
b. 9-10-1937; Boston, MA

Jared Diamond, a professor of geography and physiology, has published more than two hundred articles and several books including the bestseller “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Using evidence from ecology, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, and historical case studies, Diamond postulated that “gaps in power and technology in human societies ... originate in environmental differences powerfully amplified by various positive feedback loops.”


Portrait of Eratosthenes, Giclee Print
Portrait of Eratosthenes,
Giclee Print

Eratosthenes
b. 276 BC; Cyrene (Libya)
d. 194 BC; Alexandria

Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer and historian. He studied and worked at Alexandria, the capitol of Hellenized Ptolemaic Egypt, becoming the second librarian of the famed Alexandrian Library.

Eratosthenes created a map of the world based on the available geographical knowledge, is the first known person to have calculated the circumference of the Earth, and devised a system of latitude and longitude.

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth


Richard Hakluyt
Richard Hakluyt

Richard Hakluyt
b. c. 1552/3; London (?), England
d. 11-23-1616; London

The first serious English geographer William Hakluyt gathered accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century explorers. Intended to assist navigation and trade, Hakluyt's writing also advocated for colonies in North America.

• English Colonization ...“may staye the spanische Kinge from flowinge over all the face” of North America, wrote geographer Richard Hakluyt in 1584 - see the 1988 Nat'l Geog. Tidewater map


Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian Explorer and Author, 1940s, Photographic Print
Thor Heyerdahl,
Photographic Print

Thor Heyerdahl
b. 10-6-1914; Larvik, Norway
d. 4-18-2002; Colla Micheri, Italy

Geographer and zoologist Thor Heyerdahl is best remembered for his 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition in which he sailed 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean by balsa wood and bamboo raft from Peru, South America to the Polynesian Tuamotu Islands.

Kon-Tiki


The World According to Cosmas Indicopleustes and His Contemporaries, Giclee Print
The World According to
Cosmas Indicopleustes
and His Contemporaries,
Giclee Print

Cosmas Indicopleustes
b. c. 500 AD; Greece
d. c. ?

Sixth century traveller, merchant and monk, Cosmas Indicopleustes of Alexandria, wrote Topografia Christiana (Christian Topography) which contains some of the earliest and most famous world maps.

His name literally means “who sailed to India”.


The World as Known to Pomponius Mela, Roman Geographer, Giclee Print
The World as Known to Pomponius Mela, Roman Geographer, Giclee Print

Pomponius Mela
b. c. 1 AD; probably southern Spain
d. c. ?

Pomponius Mela was the earliest Roman geographer and author of De situ orbis libri III.

Pomponius divided the earth into five zones, a northern and southern habitable temperate zones separated by a torrid belt at the equator, and two frozen climates. He also asserted the existence of antichthones (Gk. contra+terra) those peoples who inhabit countries on opposite sides of the Earth.


Gerardus Mercator Known Also as Gerhard Kremer Flemish Cartographer, Giclee Print
Gerardus Mercator
Flemish Cartographer,
Giclee Print


Gerardus Mercator
b. 3-5-1512; Flanders
d. 12-2-1594: Duisburg

Cartographer Mercator made a cylindrical map that was the favorite of navigators and explorers because it could represent lines of true course, today we know that kind of map as a Mercator Projection.

What would you think if you were told Mercator was a precursor to Henry Ford? Mercator developed a technique to mass produce globes with paper mache, which was much faster than hand carving a block of wood or metal. Mercator's mass production technique made a spherical map less expensive and therefore available to more people. Who else was mass producing information?

Mercator was friends with mathematician John Dee.


Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy, Giclee Print
Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy, Giclee Print

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Ptolemy
b. c. 90 AD; probably near Alexandria
d. c. 168

Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, geographer, astronomer, & astrologer.


Strabo Greek Geographer and Historian
Strabo Greek Geographer and Historian

Strabo of Amaseia
b. 63/64 BC – ca. AD 24; modern day Turkey

Strabo of Amaseia, a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher, travelled throughout the Mediterranean and Near East.

Strabo's Cultural Geography: The Making of a Kolossourgia


Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson Across Western North America
Sources of the River:
Tracking David Thompson
Across Western North America


David Thompson
b. 4-30-1770; London, England
d. 2-10-1857; Montreal, Canada

Fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, David Thompson explored North America west of Hudson Bay and Lake Superior, across the Rocky Mountains to the source of the Columbia River, and followed the length of the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. He has been described as the “greatest land geographer who ever lived” and known to some native peoples as “Koo-Koo-Sint” or “the Stargazer”.

FYI ~ Thompson apprenticed to the Hudson Bay Company at age 14, clerking in present day Manitoba; Thompson was the creator of maps used by Lewis and Clark.


John Bull, Holiday Travel Agents Magazine, UK, 1950, Giclee Print
John Bull, Holiday Travel Agents Magazine, UK, 1950,
Giclee Print

John Bull, Holiday Travel Agents Magazine, UK, 1950


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