Geography

There are different periods of geography history.These are following: In history of geography we will study different periods of major contributors . Greek contributors: Tales of Miletus: (624 - 546 B.C)    He was first who wondered about the shape of the earth and assumed it to be a flat disk that floating on water.He also introduced Mathematical rules and geometry to measuring land area. Anaximander: (610 - 546 B.C) He is father of astronomy and cosmology.He was the first who attempted to create first scale map of that time of known world.Then it was published that was the first published world map.He introduced an instrument that is known as Gnomon. Hecateus: (560 - 418 B.C) He was the author of survey of the earth.He focused on observation collection of previous works and asking the sailors who coming from the busy port of Miletus. In this way he wrote a detail description of the world known that time. Herodotus: (484 - 425 B.C) His most of work