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Bernhardus Varenius

German geographer

"Varenius" redirects here. For Romans named Varenius, Varenus, or Vorenus, see Varena gens.

Bernhardus Varenius (Bernhard Varen) (, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony&#;&#; ) was a German geographer.

Life

His early years (from ) were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick.

Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg (–), and at Königsberg (–) and Leiden (–) universities, where he devoted himself to mathematics and medicine, taking his medical degree at Leiden in He then settled at Amsterdam, intending to practice medicine.

Biography of albert einstein His early years from were spent at Uelzen , where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick. He then settled at Amsterdam , intending to practice medicine. But the recent discoveries of Abel Tasman , Willem Schouten and other Dutch navigators , and his friendship for Willem Blaeu and other geographers, attracted Varenius to geography. He died in , aged only twenty-eight, a victim to the privations and miseries of a poor scholar's life. In he published, through L.

But the recent discoveries of Abel Tasman, Willem Schouten and other Dutch navigators, and his friendship for Willem Blaeu and other geographers, attracted Varenius to geography. He died in , aged only twenty-eight, a victim to the privations and miseries of a poor scholar's life.[1]

Works

In he published, through L.

Elzevir of Amsterdam, his Descriptio Regni Japoniae. In this was included a translation into Latin of part of Jodocus Schouten's account of Siam (Appendix de religione Siamensium, ex Descriptione Belgica Iodoci Schoutenii), and chapters on the religions and customs of various peoples. Next year () appeared, also through Elzevir, the work by which he is best known, his Geographia Generalis, in which he endeavored to lay down the general principles of the subject on a wide scientific basis, according to the knowledge of his day.

Varenius followed the Sphaera mundi () of Giuseppe Biancani, though he also introduced ideas that had come into thinking during the intervening decades.[2] The work is divided into (1) absolute geography, (2) relative geography and (3) comparative geography. The first investigates mathematical facts relating to the earth as a whole, its figure, dimensions, motions, their measurement, etc.

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    • The second part considers the earth as affected by the sun and stars, climates, seasons, the difference of apparent time at different places, variations in the length of the day, etc. The third part treats briefly the actual divisions of the surface of the earth, their relative positions, globe and map-construction, longitude, navigation, etc.[1]

    Varenius, with the materials at his command, dealt with the subject of geography in a truly philosophic spirit; and his work long held its position as the best treatise in existence on scientific and comparative geography.

    The work went through many editions. Sir Isaac Newton introduced several important improvements into the Cambridge edition of ; in James Jurin issued another Cambridge edition with a valuable appendix; in the whole work was translated into English by Dugdale; and in Dugdale's second edition was revised by Shaw.

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    His early years from were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick. Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg , and at Konigsberg and Leiden universities, where he devoted himself to mathematics and medicine, taking his medical degree at Leiden in He then settled at Amsterdam, intending to practise medicine. But the recent discoveries of Tasman, Schouten and other Dutch navigators, and his friendship for Blaeu and xxvri. He died in , aged only twenty-eight, a victim to the privations and miseries of a poor scholar's life.

    In an Italian edition appeared at Naples; in a Dutch translation followed; in Osman b. Abdulemennan translated it into Turkish; and in a French version, from Shaw's edition, came out at Paris. Among later geographers d'Anville and Alexander von Humboldt especially drew attention to Varen's genius and services to science.[1]

    Editions

    See also

    Notes

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      (). "Varenius, Bernhardus". Encyclopædia Britannica.

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      5. Vol.&#;27 (11th&#;ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.&#; This cites:

      • Breusing, "Lebensnachrichten von Bernhard Varenius" (Geogr. Mittheil., )
      • H. Blink's paper on Varenius in Tijdschr.

        Bernhardus varenius biography of albert einstein Bernhard Varen, known as Varenius, was born in in a village near Hamburg in Germany. He studied philosophy, mathematics and physics at the University of Hamburg. In , he got an assignment as a private tutor at Amsterdam. They were keen to learn more and more about the geographical conditions, products, articles of trades, cities, ports, and the socio-cultural conditions of the people with whom they were having trade relations. Varenius published a book in entitled Description regni Laponiae et Siam.

        van het Nederl. Aandrijksk. Genotschap (), ser. ii. pt. 3

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        Bernhardus varenius biography of albert Hitzacker, in the district of Hannover, Germany, d. Amsterdam, Holland, Son of the court preacher to the duke of Brunswick, Varenius spent his early years at Uelzen, the home of the duke. He took his medical degree at Leiden in , and settled in Amsterdam with the intention of practicing medicine. In Amsterdam the recent discoveries of Abel Tasman, Willem Schouten, and other Dutch navigators, and his friendship with Willem Blaeu as well as other geographers led him to concentrate on geography rather than medicine, much to his own economic detriment.

        Ratzel's article "Bernhard Varenius," in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. xxxix. (Leipzig, )

    5. ^Nicolson, Marjorie Hope (). "Literary attitudes toward mountains". Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

      Bernhardus varenius biography of albert king: Bernhardus Varenius (Bernhard Varen) (, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony – ) was a German geographer. His early years (from ) were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick.

      3. Scribner: – Archived from the original on

    References

    Further reading

    • Margret Schuchard (ed), Bernhard Varenius (–) (Leiden, Brill, ), xxiv, pp. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, ).

    External links

    Varenius's (), Geographia generalis, in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur, from the Linda Hall Library