Dejiny geografie a jej vedecký status

Year, pages: 2014, 39 - 47

The main objective of this paper is to try to describe briefly the change in the scientific status of geography in selected stages of its history since this topic has usually been omitted in various writings devoted to its history. Without taking into account this topic the history of geography would not be complete. The reasons why this topic is relevant consists, apart from other things in the fact that geography, before its methodological conversion in the middle of the 20th century, was not considered equivalent to other, mainly natural sciences, as to its intellectual and research (inquiring) level were concerned. The scientific status of geography is briefly described according to the following stages: Greek antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, second half of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century. The most influential stages, according to the author’s opinion, were: Enlightenment (geography of A. von Humboldt and C. Ritter) and the second half of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century (quantification, theoretization and spatial paradigm). In this last stage geography is becoming an authentic research (inquiring) discipline and is gradually approaching, according to its way of researching, the fundamental empirical sciences. history of geography, scientific status of geography

Paulov, J. 2014. Dejiny geografie a jej vedecký status. In Geografický časopis, vol. 66, no.1, pp. 39-47. 0016-7193.

Paulov, J. (2014). Dejiny geografie a jej vedecký status. Geografický časopis, 66(1), 39-47. 0016-7193.