father of geography Eratosthenes

 Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek scholar is called the ‘father of geography. He was the first one to use the word geography and he also had a small-scale notion of the planet that helped him to determine the circumference of the earth.

About Eratosthenes:

  • Eratosthenes was multi-talented. He was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist
  • He calculated the circumference of the Earth without leaving place Egypt
  • In his three-volume work Geography he described and mapped the entire world known to him, without even dividing the Earth into five climate zones which are given below:

Two freezing zones around the poles, two temperate zones, and a zone encompassing the equator and the tropics

  • He was a man of learning and exploring, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria
  • He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology used today

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