What is the earliest theory that describes the geography and topography of the earth?
The first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth and coined the word "geography" was ERATOSTHENES. The man who successfully applied his scientific research to create an illustration of the first world map was Anaximander. The person who invented the globe and argued that the representation of the world as a flat, two-dimensional object was not accurate was Ptolemy. He developed the science of geography, although he was better known for his contributions to mathematics was Eratosthenes.
