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Answered by DILhunterBOYayus
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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:

\rightsquigarrow Eratosthenes was multi-talented. He was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist.

\rightsquigarrow He calculated the circumference of the Earth without leaving place Egypt.

\rightsquigarrow 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

\rightsquigarrow :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

\rightsquigarrow He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology used today

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Eratosthenes

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.

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