Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Geography Is Revolutionary
Entry Locator Maps
Selected Chronology
Entries
Aerial Photography
Agriculture
Air Travel
Al-Biruni
Al-Idrisi, Muhammad
Al-Jahiz
Anaximander
Antarctica
Applied Geography
Aryabhata and Brahmagupta
Atmospheric Research
Bridges and Tunnels
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Burke and Wills
Burnham, Daniel
Canals
Christaller, Walter
Citizen Science
Columbus, Christopher
Compass
Cook, James
Copernicus
Cross-Staffs, Astrolabes, and Other Devices
Davis, William Morris
Defining Geography
Earth in Space
Ecoregions and Biomes
Environmental Movement
Eratosthenes
Eriksson, Leif
Field Collection Devices
French Geodesic Mission
Geodemographics
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Geographical Societies
Geography Departments
Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
Globes
Great Trigonometric Survey of India
Guyot and Agassiz
Harrison, John
Hayden, Powell, and Wheeler Surveys
Henry the Navigator
Herodotus
High-Resolution Mapping
Hipparchus
Homer
Hutton, James
Ibn Battuta
International Geophysical Year
Internet of Things
Land Protection
Latitude and Longitude
Lewis and Clark
Livingstone, David
Mackinder, Halford
Magellan, Ferdinand
Magnetic Field
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Maps
Marco Polo
Marsh, George Perkins
Maury, Matthew
Mercator, Gerardus
Münster, Sebastian
National Mapping Agencies
National Statistical Agencies
Northwest Ordinance
Observatories
Ocean Research
Pei Xiu
Photography
Pliny the Elder
Posidonius
Ptolemy
Quantitative Revolution
Regional Studies
Remote Sensing
Ritter, Carl
Roads, Ports, and Railroads
Sauer, Carl O.
Smith, William
Social Media
Spatial Analysis
Strabo
Supply Chain Management
Surveying
Time
Topophilia
Treaty of Tordesillas
Universalis Cosmographia
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Urbanization
Varenius, Bernhardus
Vesuvius
Von Humboldt, Alexander
War
Web Mapping
Wegener, Alfred
Zheng He
Bibliography
Index