1955
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1955.tb01490.x
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What Has Happened to Physical Geography?

Abstract: A and in the writings that were labeled "geography." The meaning given to the term "physical geography" had, it is true, been modified in the preceding fifteen years, alrnast entirely through the efforts of the founder of the Association, William Morris Davis. A decade earlier Davis had imposed on all but one of his fellowmembers of the sub-committee on geography of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies his then novel conception of its c0ntent.l Before about 1890 there was no evident disagreement ab… Show more

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“…Since the 1980s, however, grand theory has gone out of fashion, but what should be an opportunity to circumvent this most problematic aspect of geographical epistemology is, paradoxically, now a problem. Half a century ago, Leighly (1955) argued that forced constructions of a unitary geography were limited to disciplinary pronouncements, rather than evident from individual research. As such, they were neither convincing, nor did they foster disciplinary confidence.…”
Section: First: the World Is Difficult To Apprehendmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since the 1980s, however, grand theory has gone out of fashion, but what should be an opportunity to circumvent this most problematic aspect of geographical epistemology is, paradoxically, now a problem. Half a century ago, Leighly (1955) argued that forced constructions of a unitary geography were limited to disciplinary pronouncements, rather than evident from individual research. As such, they were neither convincing, nor did they foster disciplinary confidence.…”
Section: First: the World Is Difficult To Apprehendmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The origins and early years of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) were marked by a keen interest in fieldwork and field-based data. William Mor-ris Davis (1850Davis ( -1934, at the turn of the century, defined the parameters of the discipline in terms emphasizing the physical and human aspects of the earth's surface linked in a chain of causation visible in the field (Chorley et al 1973;Davis 1909;Leighly 1955;Marcus 1979). A powerful group of field-oriented Davisian geographers emerged with training in geology and physiography.…”
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“…While Hartshorne (1955) rebutted Schaefer’s argument in detail, the backlash to regional geography had been cemented by others (e.g. Leighly 1955; Thornthwaite 1961) and a new ‘relevant’, law‐finding and rigorously quantitative geography arose in both human and physical subdisciplines (Castree 2005). In human geography, ‘spatial science’ was used to describe the new field concerned with the laws that governed human activity across space (Castree 2005), and physical geography had begun the ‘process/form’ revolution (Kennedy 2006; Rhoads 2006).…”
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“…Fuelled by major advances in aerial photography and systematic hydrological and geological surveying, physical geography flourished through making use of these new infrastructures, and applications were often employed for purposes of resource development (Church 2010; Heymann 2010). The aftermath of the war also invoked similar calls for climatology to embrace more quantitative, mathematical and law‐finding approaches (Leighly 1955; Thornthwaite 1961). The subject of climatology was split between geographer‐climatologists and the physics‐based meteorologists, however, and beyond the few law‐like applications of indices by Thornthwaite and Leighly, it was unclear where geographers fit into the mix.…”
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