Bernhard Varenius’ books influenced the history of science in such a way that Isaac Newton, Alexander von Humboldt and Tsar Peter the Great all referred to hi

This classic work of geography by 17th-century scholar Bernhardus Varenius provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and methods of geographic analysi

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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and earl

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