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UPSC Geography-02- An Early Philosophers

This Post and the attached video will explain the following points of Micro-Notes on UPSC Geography-02- An Early Philosophers . Copy & Note it down carefully, as it will be very useful in Fast Revision of the entire topic of " UPSC Geography-02- An Early Philosophers " UPSC Geography-02- An Early Philosophers Eratosthenes Discovered Latitude & Longitude Father of Geography Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria 276 BC Thales Father of Science There is logic in every natural phenomenon , not god Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 546 BC Theophrastus Word Geography as Chorological Science History as Chronological Science Theophrastus, a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens...