El papel de los naturalistas en la difusión de la geografía: Lucas Fernández Navarro y su visión de la Sierra de Guadarrama

Geologist Lucas Fernández-Navarro, a professor of crystallography at the Universidad
Central, dedicated his life as a researcher to the study of crystallography, mineralogy
and petrography. However, his work went much further, paying special attention to the
landscapes of the Sierra de Guadarrama, one of his favorite places as a geology laboratory,
so he played a fundamental role in the dissemination of these mountains. With a
numerous articles in scientific journals and high cultural reviews, Fernandez-Navarro
contributed in a remarkable way to cover a space barely incipient in Spanish geography,
that of a modern knowledge of human geography and regional studies, always supported
in the excursion as method of study of geologists and geographers.