* According Erastothenes, geography comes from the word meaning geographica writing or depiction of the earth.
* According to Claudius Ptolomaeus, geography is a presentation via a map of the majority and the entire surface of the earth.
* John Mackinder (1861-1947) a geographer defines geography as a study of the link between humans and the natural surroundings.
* Ekblaw and Mulkerne argued that geography is a science that studies
the Earth and kehidupannnya, affect our view of life, the food we eat,
the clothes we use, the house in which we live and the recreation that
we enjoy.
* Bintarto (1977) suggests, that geography is the image the science,
explain the nature of the Earth, analyzing natural phenomena and
population as well as learn about the typical pattern of life and trying
to find a function of the elements of the Earth in space and time.
* Preston E. James argued geography associated with spatial system, which occupies the space of the earth's surface. Geography has always berkaiatan the reciprocal relationship between humans and their habitat.
* According to Ullman (1954), Geography is the interaction between space
* Maurice Le Lannou (1959) suggested that the object of geographical
study of human groups and their organizations in the face of the earth
* Paul Claval (1976) argues that geography has always wanted to describe symptoms in terms of spatial relations symptoms
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A definition of the others are the result semlok (seminars and
workshops) in Semarang in 1988. Geography is the study of the
similarities and differences in the geosphere phenomenon with regional
viewpoints and kelingkungan in spatial context.
