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地理学思想史指要 —— —杰弗里·马丁《所有可能的世界：地理学思想史》评介 叶超，蔡运龙 (北京大学城市与环境学院，北京100871) A REVIEW ON ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS:A HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL IDEAS YE Chao,CAI Yun-long (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences,Peking University,Beijing100871,China) Abstract:It is very important for geographers to know and understand the history of geographical ideas.The relative research findings about the history of geographical thoughts are not enough in China,and it has been ignored for a long time.The scholars who study the history of geographical ideas should not only master and state the geographical ideas and knowledge,and the formation and evolution of them,but also by way of this knowledge accurately understand the nature of the geography.In his book,Geoffrey Martin holds that the dif-ference of the Earths surface is the keystone of geography,and the main task of geographers is to describe and explain it.The whole history of geographical ideas can be divided into two major phases:the classical and modern times.The demarcation between the first and the second stage is in1859,because the founders of modern geography,Humboldt and Ritter died in this year.Although geography has common object and sub-ject all over the world,geography of each country has its own tradition and characteristics in the different stages.Geographers should absorb experiences from the history of ideas and learn from the professional coun-terparts,and avoid the dualism.In the future,geography will focus on some major issues about the develop-ment of humanity in the21st century.In order to know and understand the historical facts of the geographical thoughts,geographers should more profoundly understandhistoryandthoughtin the end,and not be lim-ited in a field of geography.For scholars who study the history of geographical thoughts,they should combine tightly geography with history and thought,achieve the final goal that theorizes those historical facts of geo-graphical thoughts.After all,geog