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Jedidiah Morse (August 23, 1761 – June 9, 1826) was a geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States.
5 de jun. de 2024 · Jedidiah Morse (born Aug. 23, 1761, Woodstock, Conn., U.S.—died June 9, 1826, New Haven, Conn.) was an American Congregational minister and geographer, who was the author of the first textbook on American geography published in the United States, Geography Made Easy (1784).
Jedidiah Morse (23 de agosto de 1761 – 9 de junio de 1826) fue un geógrafo cuyos libros de texto se convirtieron en un elemento básico para los estudiantes de los Estados Unidos. Fue el padre del pintor y pionero de la telegrafía Samuel Morse, y sus libros de texto le valieron el sobrenombre de "padre de la geografía estadounidense".
29 de may. de 2018 · Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), American geographer and clergyman, was most influential for his dissemination of geographical knowledge about the American continent. Jedidiah Morse was born in Woodstock, Conn., on Aug. 23, 1761, the son of a Congregationalist minister.
On May 9,1798, the Reverend Jedidiah Morse of Charlestown, Massachusetts introduced a threat to both American government and religion in the form of the Bavarian Illuminati.
But subsequent, broader intellectual movements sealed Morse's fate as a forgotten geographer (to most), including the end of the Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, Darwinism, and the “new,” process‐based geographical thinking inspired by Carl Ritter, Alexander von Humboldt, and Arnold Guyot.
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826: Annals of the American revolution; or, A record of the causes and events which produced, and terminated in the establishment and independence of the American Republic. To which is prefixed a summary account of the first settlement of the country, and some of the principal Indian wars.
