The Dawn of Modern Geography. A History of Exploration and Geographical Science

1908 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
E. L. S. ◽  
C. Raymond Beazley
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Modern Geography

El Papel de Humbodt en el Origen y Desarrollo de la Geografia Moderna

GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Héctor F. Rucinque e Wellington Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
History Of Geography ◽  
Tropical America ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
Modern Geography

RESUMO Por lo general, los historiadores de la ciencia reconocen la importaocia de Alexander von Humboldt en el desarrollo de la geografía moderna, si bien tal contribución especializada no es claramente desglosada de su multifacética producción científica. Con ocasión del bicentenario de su viaje a la América tropical, el papel de Humboldt en la formulación de las bases de una metodología analítica para la investigación geográfica, y su monumental trabajo sustantivo, lo mismo que su penetrante permanencia e inspiración en la tradición geográfica, deben acreditarse como justificación amplia y suficiente para su título de padre fundador de la geografía científica. Epígrafes: Humboldt, historia de la geografía, geografía moderna, metodología geográfica, exploración científica.ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt’s contributions to the development of modern geography are generally ackoowledged by historians of science, though not always stated precisely out of his many-sided scholarly production. On the occasion of the Bicentennial of his voyage to tropical America, Humboldt’s role in setting forth the foundation of an analytical methodology for geography as well as for his monumental substantive work, along with his pervasive and inspiring perrnanence in the geographical tradition, must be recognized as ample justification tu his title as founding father of scientific geography. Key words: Humboldt, history of geography, modern geography, geagraphical methodology, scientific exploration.

scholarly journals Kumis treatment in the steppe regions as a promising direction of tourist nature management

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 10011
Author(s):  
Natalia Sviatokha ◽  
Irina Filimonova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Orenburg Region ◽  
Horse Breeding ◽  
Dry Steppe ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Geography ◽  
Former Ussr ◽  
Further Development

Recently, much attention has been paid by scientists from different countries to the issues of tourist environmental management. The kumis therapy development, being a historically established direction of medical tourism, is promising in the steppe regions. When analyzing the history of the development of kumis therapy in the former USSR, it was revealed that after the collapse of the USSR, an organized network of kumis treatment centers ceased to exist. Original maps reflect historical aspects and modern geography of sanatorium with kumis treatment. Most of them are located in the forest-steppe and steppe zones. The paper considers the steppe region of Russia the Orenburg region promising for the development of kumis treatment in connection with a suitable dry steppe climate, the development of horse breeding and the possibilities of landscape therapy. The paper notes the appropriateness of the further development of kumis treatment and the modernization of kumis treatment centers in the Orenburg region.

scholarly journals El Papel de Humbodt en el Origen y Desarrollo de la Geografia Moderna

GEOgraphia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Héctor F. Rucinque e Wellington Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
History Of Geography ◽  
Tropical America ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
Modern Geography

RESUMO Por lo general, los historiadores de la ciencia reconocen la importaocia de Alexander von Humboldt en el desarrollo de la geografía moderna, si bien tal contribución especializada no es claramente desglosada de su multifacética producción científica. Con ocasión del bicentenario de su viaje a la América tropical, el papel de Humboldt en la formulación de las bases de una metodología analítica para la investigación geográfica, y su monumental trabajo sustantivo, lo mismo que su penetrante permanencia e inspiración en la tradición geográfica, deben acreditarse como justificación amplia y suficiente para su título de padre fundador de la geografía científica. Epígrafes: Humboldt, historia de la geografía, geografía moderna, metodología geográfica, exploración científica.ABSTRACT Alexander von Humboldt’s contributions to the development of modern geography are generally ackoowledged by historians of science, though not always stated precisely out of his many-sided scholarly production. On the occasion of the Bicentennial of his voyage to tropical America, Humboldt’s role in setting forth the foundation of an analytical methodology for geography as well as for his monumental substantive work, along with his pervasive and inspiring perrnanence in the geographical tradition, must be recognized as ample justification tu his title as founding father of scientific geography. Key words: Humboldt, history of geography, modern geography, geagraphical methodology, scientific exploration.

Geography's Empire: Histories of Geographical Knowledge

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Driver
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
General Question ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
Imaginative Geographies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Modern Geography

In this paper the possibilities and hazards of a critical perspective on the history of geographical knowledge are considered. The focus is on the relations between modern geography and European colonialism during the ‘age of empire’ (circa 1870–1914). For writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad and Halford Mackinder, this was a moment of decisive importance for the making of the modern world. Although the interplay between geography, modernity, and colonialism has recently attracted attention from the historians of geography, it is argued in this paper that they have often conceived the role of geographical knowledge in somewhat narrow terms. The work of Edward Said is discussed at some length, as it highlights some of the key issues and dilemmas facing those who would rewrite critical histories of geographical discourse. A totalising view of ‘imaginative geographies’ (such as those of Orientalism) is argued against, and instead the heterogeneity of geographical knowledges is emphasised. The paper concludes with a more general question: Why have histories of geography at all, in these (post)modern times?

Macpherson on Pinkerton: Literary Amenities of the Eighteenth Century

PMLA ◽  
1927 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-442
Author(s):  
W. A. Craigie
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scottish Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Geography ◽  
General Collection

In the latter part of the eighteenth century one of the most notable scholars and editors in the field of the older Scottish literature was the learned and energetic John Pinkerton, who began to publish his own poetry at the age of eighteen, brought out several volumes of poems and ballads before he was twenty-five, wrote valuable contributions to the history of Scotland, published two collections of old Scottish poetry, as well as editions of Barbour's “Bruce,” etc.,—and then after 1800 went off into entirely new lines in his “Modern Geography,” “General Collection of Voyages and Travels,” “New Modern Atlas,” and even a “Petralogy.”

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