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He was the first person to use the word "geography" and invented the discipline of geography as we understand it
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Some would give Timaeus an extra 5 years, bringing the voyage down to 325 BC at earliest
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of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.
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He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, but later obtained Spanish nationality in order to serve King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands"
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discovering surface currents and therefore in 1777 published the first map of the gulf stream.
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was an American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator.
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The Challenger expedition of 1872–76 was a scientific exercise that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. The expedition was named after the mother vessel, HMS Challenger.
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while working for the Submarine Signal Company in Boston, built an experimental system beginning
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3,028 feet
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Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, at least three of which were of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science
