INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Ramchandra Bhivaji Bhaskar Assist. Professor Head Department of Geography The New college, Kolhapur Geography HISTORY Behaims (1492) Two dimension maps Varenius (1622-1650) General Geography Immannel
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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Ramchandra Bhivaji Bhaskar
Assist. Professor & Head
Department of Geography
The New college, Kolhapur<br>
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Geography HISTORY
Behaim’s (1492) Two dimension maps
Varenius (1622-1650) General Geography
Immannel kant (1724-1804) Geology, Zoo and Botony
Europe and US (1800 century)
Humbolt – Cosmos
Ritter – erdkunde
Ratzel – Father of human geography
W M Davis - Geomorphology
Penk – Physical Geography
Richard Hartshorne- Nature of Geography
Bowman – what, where and why
Taylor – Correlative science
Blache – Science of places
David Harvey – areal differentiation<br>
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geography The study of natural and human constructed phenomena relative to spatial dimension.
The study of the features of the earth surface including with spatial distribution, interrelationship and the interaction of the man with them.
HISTORY
400 yrs ago
Map features and places observed as explores
Greeks
Greek philosophers and scientist learning about nature of human and physical features found on earth
Herodotus (484-425BC) human and physical geography
Aristotle (384-322BC) Earth had a spherical shape
Eratosthenes (276-194BC) Equatorial circumference
Roman
Strabo (64BC-20AD) Cultural Geographia
Ptolemy (100-178AD) Latitude and Longitude
Arab
Al-Idrisi, Ibn-Buttutah & Ibn- Khaldun – Making of map & descriptive Geo.<br>
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DEFINITION OF GEOGRAPHY Geo – Earth, Graphia – Description
Field Survey
Observation
experimental
analysis
Space
Temporal
Interaction
Location
Distribution
Pattern
Processes
Structure
Composition
Stage<br>
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DEFINITION OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY The study of Physical environment
Arthur Holmes:
The study of physical geography which includes consideration of surface relief of the globe, of the seas and oceans and of the air.
W. M. Davis
The study of composition, processes and stage of the physical features.
Webster :
The study of transformation in landscape, water, climate etc.
Richard Hartshorne
The systematic description of earth surface forces
Arthur Holmes :
The study of unification of a number of earth science which gives us general insight of earth environment.<br>
