Humboldt wrote his famous book 'Cosmos' after he conducted fieldwork in -

• Europe

• West Africs

• South America

• North America

Philosophical approach in geographical writings ws first adopted by

• Cral Ritter

• Richard Hartshorne

• Bernhard Varenius

• Immanuel Kant

Which of the following philosphies was advanced by August Comte ?

• Empiricism

• Postivism

• Marxism

• Humanism

The concept of sequent occupance was advocated by

• H.H.Barrows

• C.D.Harris

• D.S.Whittlesey

• Richard Hartshorne

ASSERTION (A) : Ratzels concept of Lebensraum was based on the idea that State is similar to the "Organism".

REASON (R) : Ratzel was a determinist and was under the influence of Darwin's theory of "Survival of the Fittest."

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is correct but (R) is wrong.

• (A) is wrong but (R) is correct.

The central theme of the scientific revolution is concerned with :

• History of scientific revolution

• Scientific research done by Newton and Leibniz

• Procedure of verifying hypothesis

• Changing methodological and conceptual perspective in Geographic thought

Large number of various branches of science had their roots in :

• 17^th century

• 16^th century

• 18^th century

• 19^th century

Why in 18^th century were the concepts and methods of Kant acceptable ?

• Beacuse Kant was a physical geographer

• He provided method of classification of knowledge

• He separated geographical research from historical research

• Develpment of theory and its verification was possible

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Who was the 'last of the great polymaths' ?

• Humboldt

• Leibniz

• Kant

• Newton