GEOG 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, Botany
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David stoddart: the sciences of nature and the history of geography. He was a physical geographer, his work concerned biogeography and geomorphology of islands in the tropics (in particular, coral reefs) His work derived from a "natural science" tradition. The book her wrote in 1985 is a personal take on the sciences of nature, it is very much field. The aim of the book was to establish a new normative history, that was different from it"s usual one (like hawsthorne) to go against what. He argues that geography is distinguished as an intellectual activity because of a set of attitudes, methods and questions. He was more interested in geography being a discipline. He excluded earlier versions of geography --> classical traditions (e. g. strabo/ptolemy), early modern traditions as well as non- He wanted to propose geography as a distinctively european tradition. Geography as a european science --> considered to be about discovering truth through exploration and objectivity.
