What is "geographers"

Usage examples of "geographers".

We have evidence that they were collected and studied in the great library of Alexandria [Egypt] and that compilations of them were made by the geographers who worked there.

The geographers (and even Ptolemy) have magnified, above fifteen times, the real size of this new world, which they extended as far as the equator, and the neighborhood of China.

Some geographers have placed Dispargum on the German side of the Rhine.

But for all that, he is distinguished for his learning, and he is one of the best geographers in France.

They were all somewhat fatigued with the journey, and glad enough to halt for the night on the banks of the Neuquem, called Ramid, or Comoe by certain geographers, a troubled, turbulent rapid flowing between high red banks.

This simply implies either that the imagination of geographers is not infinite, or that their vocabulary of proper names is very poor.

On the equator, itself, interestingly, geographers maintain that there are two dry seasons and two rainy seasons.

The men with him, I suspected, or most of them, were members of his own caste, geographers of the scribes, perhaps, but men inured to hardships, perhaps men who had been with him in his explorations of Ushindi and Ngao, men he trusted and upon whom he could count in desperate situations, caste brothers.

It tells us that the knowledge of the First Men consisted of the ability to see ‘things hidden in the distance’, that they were astronomers who ‘examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of the sky’, and that they were geographers who succeeded in measuring ‘the round face of the earth’.

It is has now fallen into disuse, but is to be found in the works of all the oriental geographers and historians who have treated of this portion of India.