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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Study how Ptolemy tried to use deferents and epicycles to explain retrograde motion
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder
British political geographer
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
German scholar Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter
German geographer
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Li Zhizao
Chinese mathematician and astronomer
Alfred Hettner
German geographer
Friedrich Ratzel
Friedrich Ratzel
German geographer
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
Reclus, Élisée
Élisée Reclus
French geographer
Sir Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquarian
Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist

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