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Peter James Taylor FBA FAcSS (born 21 November 1944) is an English geographer.Born in Calverton in Nottinghamshire, he was Professor of Political Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne between 1970 and 1996, before joining Loughborough University as Professor of Geography [1] He is the co-founding editor of the journal Political Geography, and is the founder and director of the ...
He gave it the name "orthographic" and formally published his work in 1885 in the Scottish Geographical Magazine. [1] The projection is suggestive of the orthographic projection in that distances between parallels of the Gall–Peters are a constant multiple of the distances between the parallels of the orthographic. That constant is √ 2.
Peter Merriman is a British cultural geographer and historical geographer as well as a mobilities scholar.. He was educated at the University of Nottingham, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in geography, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree examining the cultural and historical geographies of England’s M1 motorway, supervised by David Matless and Charles Watkins.
Peter Haggett (born 24 January 1933 [1]) is a British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.
Peter Gould au Festival international de géographie 1997. Peter Gould (18 November 1932 – 22 January 2000) [1] was an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Geography at Penn State University.
Peter Gregory (academic), [14] Director since 2005 of the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie near Dundee, and Professor of Soil Science from 1994–2005 at the University of Reading Geoffrey Colin Guy , Governor of Saint Helena from 1976 to 1981, and Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1958 to 1959 and 1959–1965
Settlement geography is a branch of human geography that investigates the Earth's surface's part settled by humans. According to the United Nations' Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements (1976), "human settlements means the totality of the human community – whether city, town or village – with all the social, material, organizational, spiritual and cultural elements that sustain it."
The 1511 map gives the earliest record of the Bermudas and is the first printed map specifically devoted to the Americas.. Peter Martyr was a prolific writer. He is estimated to have composed some eight hundred letters addressed to various illustrious persons relating events in Spain and the Spanish court, written in a journalistic style, often quite gossipy.