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University of Cantabria

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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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I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.

Mitch Hedberg, — quoted in John Krygier, Denis Wood (2011). Making Maps, Second Edition. The Guilford Press. p. 58. ISBN 1609181670.

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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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Even heavy automobile traffic out of New York City on a summer weekend minutely unbalances the earth as it rotates.

Paul Allman Siple, in 90° South : The Story of the American South Pole Conquest (1959), p. 279.

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