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Autonomous University of Barcelona

Geography

Geografia

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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Geography

Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. The first person to use the word "γεωγραφία" was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC). Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be.

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Ptolemy's Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time.

Ptolemy, J. Lennart Berggren, Alexander Jones (2001) Ptolemy's Geography: An Annotated Translation of the Theoretical Chapters.

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Since my youth geography has been for me the primary object of study. When I was engaged in it, having applied the considerations of the natural and geometric sciences, I liked, little by little, not only the description of the earth, but also the structure of the whole machinery of the world, whose numerous elements are not known by anyone to date.

Gerardus Mercator (1578), Introduction to Ptolemy's Geography

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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

James A. Garfield, as quoted in Freedom IS...: A Book/Journal with a Twist (2008) by Kathleen Wensel, p. 141.

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