History of Geography

This is not a history of geographical exploration, though the leading episodes in the advance of our knowledge of the face of the Earth are necessarily referred to in tracing the evolution of geography as a department of science. That is the object of this volume as one of a series dealing succin...

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History of Geography

PREFACE
Chapter I. BEGINNINGS
Chapter II. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS
Chapter III. THE DARK AGE
Chapter IV. THE MEDI?VAL RENASCENCE
Chapter V. PORTUGUESE EXPANSION AND THE REVIVAL OF PTOLEMY
Chapter VI. THE NEW WORLD
Chapter VII. THE FAR EAST AND THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA
Chapter VIII. POLAR EXPLORATION TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter IX. JAMES COOK AND HIS SUCCESSORS
Chapter X. MEASUREMENT, CARTOGRAPHY, AND THEORY, 1500–1800
Chapter XI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: AFRICAN RESEARCH
Chapter XII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: ASIA AND AUSTRALIA
Chapter XIII. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: THE POLES
Chapter XIV.

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