ILST 2655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Juan De La Cosa, Gerardus Mercator, Quantitative Revolution
28 Nov 2018
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Homer, thales, hecateus, herodotus, plato, erat stenes, ptolemy, strabo. Middle ages: beatus, marco polo, juan de la cosa, gerardus mercator. Modern geographers: humboldt, vidal de la blache, sauer. Environmental determinism, regional geography, quantitative revolution, critical geography, geographical techniques. Genetic questions - deals with sequence of events such as historical geography. Remedial question - the application of concepts and skills to determine political and social problems. Methodological deals with experiments, new methods of studying and cartography methods. Geographical information system (gis) ability to access information used by governments. The earth is round and is a rotating planet because that"s what gives it day and night. The revolution around the sun is different from the spin around the axis. Earth"s geoid is the surface of the earth, which goes from left to right on the equator. Important effect on physical and life processes on earth. Serves as a reference of setting up the geographic grid.
