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Bernhardus Varenius was born at Hitzacker on the Elbe, in the Liineburg district of Hanover. His early years (from 1627) were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick.
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A complete system of general geography: Originally written in Latin by Bernhard Varenius, M.D. Since improved and illustrated. By Sir Isaac Newton and ... additions. In two volumes. Volume 2 of 2
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Bernhardus Varenius
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Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg, at Konigsberg and Leiden universities, where he devoted himself to mathematics and medicine, taking his medical degree at Leiden in 1649.
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He then settled at Amsterdam, intending to practise medicine. After studying medicine, he was attracted to geography by his acquaintance with geographers. In 1649 he published Descriptio Regni Japoniae (“Description of the Kingdom of Japan”), which in addition to describing Japan included a Latin translation of an account of Siam (Thailand), possibly by the Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, and excerpts from the Arab traveler and geographer Leo Africanus on religion in Africa.
Geographia generalis (1650), Varenius’s best-known work, sought to lay down the general principles of geography on a wide scientific basis according to the knowledge of the day. It not only was a systematic geography on a scale not previously attempted but also contained a scheme for special, now known as regional, geography. That major work was frequently revised, and the edition of 1672 had improvements by Sir Isaac Newton.
He died in 1650, aged only twenty eight, a victim to the privations and miseries of a poor scholar's life.
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A complete system of general geography: Originally written in Latin by Bernhard Varenius, M.D. Since improved and illustrated. By Sir Isaac Newton and ... additions. In two volumes. Volume 2 of 2
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A compleat system of general geography (v.1): explaining the nature and properties of the earth
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Geographia Generalis: In Qua Affectiones Generales Telluris Explicantur... (Latin Edition)
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A complete system of general geography: Originally written in Latin by Bernhard Varenius, M.D. Since improved and illustrated. By Sir Isaac Newton and ... additions. In two volumes. Volume 2 of 2
