Sentence examples for diffusion of geographic knowledge from inspiring English sources

The printing process, in addition to permitting the wide diffusion of geographic knowledge, retained the fidelity of the original works.

In the late nineties, a hundred years after its founding, as a "society for the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," the organization began extending its brand with film, television, and Web projects.

ON the face of it, examinations of human phobias or the physics of ice-skating and billiards would seem to have little to do with "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," the mission the founders of the National Geographic Society took on when they convened in a club near the White House in 1888.

The nonprofit society, created in 1888 for the "increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge," plans to announce today that it will buy 30percentt of iExplore Inc., a privately held Internet company that sells adventure and "experiential" vacation tours in 152 countries.

I found that I was quickly shedding all vestiges of geographic knowledge.

The Greeks were outstanding among peoples of the ancient world for their pursuit and development of geographic knowledge.

By 600 bce Miletus, on the Aegean, had become a centre of geographic knowledge, as well as of cosmographic speculation.

Geovisualization is migrating into many application domains as a ubiquitous element of software-intensive systems and their user interfaces due to the broad diffusion of geographic data.

Within two centuries, exhibition notes remind us, "the primacy of ancient geographic knowledge and mapping conventions came to an end".

Of particular importance in this section is the role of photography in constructing geographic knowledge and establishing truth.

They also illustrate the risk of a reductionist model focusing only on one individual haplogroup without considering more realistic population dynamics; groups of individuals - not just specific lineages - move from one population to another in the presence of a real gene flow, and the mechanisms of diffusion of cultural knowledge may have also differed over time and geographic area.