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Also Known As Indicopleustes
Flourished c.501 - c.600
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
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Scylax Of Caryanda
Greek explorer
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Artemidorus
Greek geographer
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Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
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Eduard Brückner
Austrian geographer and climatologist
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Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Halford Mackinder
Halford Mackinder
British political geographer
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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
Arab geographer
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
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al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
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Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
German scholar Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter
German geographer
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Li Zhizao
Chinese mathematician and astronomer
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Alfred Hettner
German geographer