Historia geographiae

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Geographia (Graece γεωγραφία) est vocabulum quod ab Erasthostene primum adhibitum est.

Europa et Mediterraneum

Antiquitas

Graecia

Homerus pater geographiae vocatur. Ilias et Odyssea, sua opera magna, artis litterae sunt, multas autem percontationes geographiae continent.

Roma

De Rerum Natura partem de geographia habet. Ptolomaeus etiam de geographia scripsit. Hoc tempore, Imperium Romanum expandebatur per Europam et regiones antea ignotas sicut Insulas Britannicas explorabantur.

Medium Aevum

Imperium Byzantinum

Postquam lapsus Imperii Romani Occidentalis, Imperium Byzantinum produxit varios geographos notabiles.Stephanus Byzantinus fuit grammaticus in Constantinopole et auctor dictionarii geographici Ethnica.

Mundus Islamicus

Aliqui geographi islamici fuerunt:

Geber (721– c. 815) scripsit de multis argumentis et expansit sapientia classicorum Graecorum. Non sapemus si erat Persicus aut Syrius^[1].
Algorismus (780–850) scripsit Imago Terrae (Kitab surat al-ard), ubi adhibuit Geographiam Ptolomei sed melioravit cognitionem Mediterranei, Asiae et Africae.
Albirunius (973–1052).
Avicenna (980–1037) scripsit de geographia in Sanatio.
Aḥmad ibn Rusta Iṣfahānī (10th century) scripsit Book of Precious Records.

Asia

India

Vedi et Puranae habet descriptionem fluviorum et montium.

Bibliographia

Gómez Mendoza, J., Muñoz Jiménez, J. et Ortega Cantero, N. (1988) El pensamiento geográfico. Estudio interpretativo y antología de textos (De Humboldt a las tendencias radicales), Matritum: Alianza Editorial.
Martin, Geoffrey J. (2005) All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas. Novum Eboracum: Oxford University Press.

Notae

↑ S.N. Nasr, "Life Sciences, Alchemy and Medicine", The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge, Volume 4, 1975, p. 412: "Jabir is entitled in the traditional sources as al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi, al-Sufi. There is a debate as to whether he was a Persian from Khorasan who later went to Kufa or whether he was, as some have suggested, of Syrian origin and later lived in Iran".

Nexus interni

Historia scientiae

Nexus externi

About.com Geography : Timeline of Geographic History

[1] S.N. Nasr, "Life Sciences, Alchemy and Medicine", The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge, Volume 4, 1975, p. 412: "Jabir is entitled in the traditional sources as al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi, al-Sufi. There is a debate as to whether he was a Persian from Khorasan who later went to Kufa or whether he was, as some have suggested, of Syrian origin and later lived in Iran".

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