 | 1908 - 724 pagini
...first is that in The International Geography where geography is defined as " the exact and organised knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the...interaction of Man with his terrestrial environment." The second is that given in his address " On Eesearch in Geographical Science " delivered as President... | |
 | 1896 - 832 pagini
...nature in the limited, but still general, aspect of the surface of the Earth. "Geography as a science is the exact and organized knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the surface of the Earth. This involves the human race; and because the human race represents the culmination of organic evolution,... | |
 | Hugh Robert Mill - 1899 - 1130 pagini
...definition of the modern science may be put in these words : — Geography is the exact and organised knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the...interaction of Man with his terrestrial environment. The Position of Geography. — In the field of knowledge geography occupies a peculiar, even unique... | |
 | 1901 - 250 pagini
...given to the world by its greatest teachers. Dr. HH Mill says : '' Geography is the exact and organised knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the...interaction of man with his terrestrial environment." Another great teacher, Mr. HJ Mackinder, says this : " I have ventured to define geography — if it... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1901 - 1146 pagini
...mathematical properties of a rotating sphere ; but if we define geography as the exact and organised knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the surface of the Earth, we see the force of Kant's classification, which subordinated mathematical to physical geography. The... | |
 | 1901 - 740 pagini
...mathematical properties of a rotating sphere ; but if we define geography as the exact and organised knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the surface of the Earth, we see the force of Kant's classification, which subordinated mathematical to physical geography. The... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1903 - 582 pagini
...(by Dr. II. R. Mill), on which evident care has been expended, " Geography is tho exact and organised knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the...interaction of Man with his terrestrial environment." * Dr. Mill goes on to say, " As the meeting-place of the physical and the human sciences, it is the... | |
 | 1908 - 874 pagini
...features of the globe, and all that its face sustains, including man himself." '— /. Scott Keltic. "Geography is the exact and organized knowledge of...interaction of Man with his terrestrial environment." ' — HR Mill. "The geography of to-day starts from the point of view of diversity in space, and aims... | |
 | Ernest Walter Dann - 1908 - 250 pagini
...to gain a starting-point in our brief study in this volume of one phase of it. Dr. HR Mill says : " Geography is the exact and organized knowledge of...interaction of man with his terrestrial environment." The core of that definition is the word distribution. Suppose we are considering rainfall. If we were... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1909 - 900 pagini
...following quotations : A formal definition of the modern science of geography may be put in these words : . Geography is the exact and organized knowledge of...interaction of man with his terrestrial environment." The ultimate problem of geography may perhaps be taken as the determination of the influence of the... | |
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Geography is the exact and organized knowledge of the distribution of phenomena on the surface of the Earth, culminating in the explanation of the interaction of Man with his terrestrial environment. 
