Geography studies mutual relationship between environment and man.Eloborate this statement
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Geography as a discipline always had the purpose of gaining logical and useful information
about the man and his habitat. This has been from the beginning of the philosophical
scholarship of man. To establish my point I would initiate from Eratosthenes, the Greek
scholar in the third century B.C who coined the term ‘geography’. The word 'geography' can
be divided into two parts, 'geo' and 'graphy.' 'Geo' comes from the Greek word 'go', meaning
'Earth,' and 'graphy' comes from 'graphein', which means 'to describe.' What is more
important to know that in what spirit did Eratosthenes coined the term geography? For him,
geography was a discipline that studies earth as the home of a man (James and Martin, 1972).
This sets the roots for the theme of man-environment relationship within the geographical
thinking. The theme became so popularise that it still persists; in the words of Broek (1965)
‘.....................to understand the earth as the world of man..