10. The knowledge of the position of the different parts of the earth, and their mutual relations with each other, will afford us much useful instruction, and also as much pleasure, as we can derive from any other origin.
PETER GORDON HUNT.

8. It has great power in political economy, politics, census, and astronomy.
9. Knowing geography well gives us great pleasure.

5. Ancient describes all those places of ancient history in tables; recent describes those that are recorded in recent history.
6. Geography is one of the most useful sciences.
7. It may be called one of the eyes of history, the other of which is chronology.

3. The earth is divided into continents, islands, peninsulas, isthmuses, and so on; water is divided into oceans, seas, lakes, ravines, rivers, and so on.
4. Geography is divided into ancient and recent.

This is by Peter Hunt for his AB degree in 1824:

GEOGRAPHICAL THESES.
1. Geography is the science that describes the most remarkable places on the globe.
2. The globe of the earth is a spherical mass of matter, composed of land and water.

Thinking with this alongside recent article by @profgillian.bsky.social, “Visualising human life in volumetric cities: City digital twins and other disasters”

doi.org/10.1177/2754...

“A good computer system must include, Mr. Wood said, flexible compatible, retrievable data for specific neighborhoods within a city covering social and physical development, health and education, and new construction and rehabilitation.” (AP 1967)