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Comparative geography
Carl Ritter and William Leonard Gage
Carl Ritter helped invent geography as a science, and here he lays out its grand principles. He considers the shape of the earth, the balance of land and water, and how the position of the continents shapes human life. A foundational text of comparative geography. For readers interested in how the whole planet was first understood as a connected system.
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41 chapters
- 1COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY.
- 2PART I. THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH CONSIDERED IN ITS MOST GENERAL RELATIONS.
- 3The Spheroidal Form of the Earth.
- 4The Threefold Covering of the Earth.
- 5The Superficial Dimensions of the Land and Water on the Globe.
- 6Contrast of the Land and Water Hemispheres.
- 7The Position of the Continents and its Influence on the Course of History.
- 8The Pyramidal Forms of the Great Land-masses, and their Southward Direction toward the Oceanic Hemisphere.
- 9Situation of the Continents in their Relation to Each Other and to their Collective Whole.
- 10The Historical Element in Geographical Science.
- 11PART II.
- 12A more extended Investigation regarding the Earth’s Surface.
- 13Highlands.
- 14Highlands or Plateaus of the First Class.
- 15Plateaus of the Second Class.
- 16Mountains and Mountain Lands.
- 17The Relations of Plateau Systems.
- 18Primeval Formation of Plateaus and Mountains.
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