father of geography ?
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Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek scholar is called the “father of geography”. He was the first one to use the word geography and he also had a small-scale notion of the planet that helped him to determine the circumference of the earth.
About Eratosthenes:
Eratosthenes was multi-talented. He was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist.
He calculated the circumference of the Earth without leaving place Egypt.
In his three-volume work Geography he described and mapped his entire world known to him, without even dividing the Earth into five climate zones which are given below
:Two freezing zones around the poles, two temperate zones, and a zone encompassing the equator and the tropicsHe was a man of learning and exploring, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria
He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology used today
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