GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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Who is known as the ‘Father of Geography?’
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Erasmus
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Homer
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Eratosthenes
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eratosthenes may have been the first to use the word geography. He invented a system of longitude and latitude and made a map of the known world. He also designed a system for finding prime numbers-whole numbers that can only be divided by themselves or by the number 1.
Detailed explanation-3: -Posidonius (c. 135 – c. 51 BC), a Greek astronomer and mathematician who calculated the circumference of the Earth.
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