... himself only classes it as part of 'the largest sense of all' within the description of the subject of Geography. The recognition of Geography as a science by Immanuel Kant during the period leading up to the writing of this definition meant that the preciseness that Statistics gave had only recently been realised in a Geographical aspect. It would indeed have been hard for an unspecialised author such as Johnson to have evaluated all aspects of Geography, especially as this definition was made before any Geographical authority or society was established. The definition was written 72 years before the first regular gathering of geographers took place in a public house in 1827, which would then lead on in 1830 to the formation of the Royal Geographical Society. Earlier studies by scholars and geographers such as the one by Bernhardus Varenius, one of many German geographers, didn't even go as far as Johnson ...

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