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