A Reforma Teológica, Bernhardt Varenius e a constituição da Ciência Geográfica

This article seeks to demonstrate that the relationship among science and religion has been of great importance for the\uddevelopment of a mechanical conception of nature since the seventeenth century that was by the Protestant Reform.\udSuch reform has led to the desecration of the Nature, the formation of a mechanical conception of it, including a strong\udimaginative and practical component which conducted to the construction of the telescope and the microscope, furthermore\udthe innovations in chemistry and medicine. In this context the geographic work of Bernhardt Varenius started the\udmodern geographical thought due to the reflection on the empirical validity of the works of Galileo Galilei, Kepler and\udDescartes. Varenius understood the surface of as an articulated set of different areas identified by each part that constitutes\udthe product of a complex crossroads between culture,religion and nature