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地理学简史(国外英文资料) A brief history of geography Ancient geography (before the 19th century) First, the ancient Greek geography (1) the earliest geographical accounts The earliest geographic accounts of the ancient greeks appeared in the epic of Homer in the 12th century BC, in which Homer was revered as the ancestral master of Greek geography. Homer refers to the two historical epic poem: a film called the Iliad, it describes the 1280-1280 b.c. 1280 the battle of Troy episode; Another is the Odyssey, which recounts the difficult adventures of the Odyssey in the home of itaka, after the fall of Troy. Odyssey has been blown off course by the storm, and has wandered far and away for 20 years, passing through many amazing natural wonders. Two epic times have been separated by a hundred years, but the author is Homer, and the work of one man or two is not yet available. But in any case, the Homer epic is the earliest geographic description of the west. (2) the ground circle says In the 6th century BC, Pythagoras made the mathematical laws of the circular motion of celestial bodies. Two great Greek philosophers contributed to the development of geography in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Plato (428 -- 348 BC) proposed the idea of the earth is round and created the earth center. Most people who lived in that era thought that the earth was flat from their own intuitive sense. But Plato, as a philosopher, put it down. Plato is a master in deductive reasoning, he argued that all things that can be observed on the earth is only a concept as bad copy, all things that can be observed from the object of perfect degradation, or in the degradation process. He thinks that the form of symmetry is one of the perfect attributes, and that the earth should be created in the most perfect form, so it must be spherical. Aristotle, unlike Plato, is a special kind of reasoning that USES induction to observe and analyze things. He observed a lot of evidence that the earth was round, such as th