Sunday 2 August 2020

Thought for the Day

"Geography lies at the confluence of many streams of thought"
Professor Robert Rudmose Brown

Source:
Brown, R. N. Rudmose. “SCOTLAND AND SOME TRENDS IN GEOGRAPHY: JOHN MURRAY, PATRICK GEDDES and ANDREW HERBERTSON.” Geography, vol. 33, no. 3, 1948, pp. 107–120. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40564415. Accessed 2 Aug. 2020.

Rudmose Brown was the first Professor of Geography at Sheffield University.
I came up with the word 'confluence' as the word for a group of geographers some years ago. When we flow together we are stronger...

Quoted in:
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED331742.pdf

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