Table of Contents

1. Foundations of modern empiricism; 2. Science and geography: the seventeenth-century encounter; 3. Geography in decline: the age of Newton; 4. Eighteenth-century empiricism: Locke, Berkley and Hume; 5. On the margins of science: eighteenth-century geography texts; 6. Science and philosophy: enlightenment conflicts in Europe; 7. Geography revived: the age of Humboldt; 8. Epilogue: the way ahead.

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The age of Francis Bacon marked the beginning of a long period when empirical science was seen as the key to progress in extending man's control over nature.