Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Friday, June 2, 2017

The Purse of Eratosthenes

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For about 10 years in the 1990s, I worked on assembling a collection of ancient coins worth about a day's wages from the towns and times...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Anthropocene: bad name for a good thing

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The Age of Man: humanity as a global culture; our cities a new environment, a new ecology, an invented eco-system.   It is inspiri...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Megacities

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“Today there are more than 20 cities with over 10 million inhabitants. Some are sleek, modern, and hightech; others are filled wit...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

CIRCUMFERENCE

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Democritus of Abdera posited the existence of atoms. Aristotle accurately described the embryology of the chick.  Aristarchus put the sun a...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Ground Truth

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Geographers who work with remote sensing data call "ground truth" the final empircal test.  You never know for sure what the instr...
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