1. The Expansion Of The Discipline Of Geography Before 1900
... literature on the period following and the story of the expansion of geography isn't picked up again until the Middle Ages. This was a time of incredible religious importance and influence and probably one of the greatest social and ideological influences on geographical thinking. The church rejected the ideas of the Greeks and Romans particularly on the shape of the earth and so "the earth became a disk, with Jerusalem as its centre- (Broek 1965:12). The church regressed the progress of scientific ... recognised by Bernhardus Varenius, in his publication Geographica Generalis, who iden...
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