In this essay we will discuss about the development of geography in Great Britain. Development of professional geography in Great Britain took place much late as compared to Germany and France. This is because it lacked people like Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Ritter and Vidal de la Blache who laid the foundation of modern scientific geography in their respective countries. [...]
In this essay we will discuss about the evolution of Arab geography. Arab geographers in the medieval period preferred to formulate their concepts as generalisations of empirically observed facts and insisted on the importance of direct observation. Unlike their counterparts in the Christian world, they made valuable contributions to geographical knowledge, though some Arab scholars made logical deductions from existing [...]
In this essay we will discuss about the evolution of Chinese geography. When ideas pertaining to the geographical paradigms and models were developing in Greece and Rome, exactly at the same time, another major centre of geographic study in remote China was making rapid progress. Essentially, the Greek and the Chinese intellectual worlds remained isolated, each discovering the other step [...]