Geography reproduces scientifically a whole array of ways of seeing things drawn from the common heritage of humanity. In the Genesis, one can already perceive a conscience of space. But it is in the works of Descartes that can be found a mental archetype of the geographers' perception of the world. This leads to the suggestion of an origin for the overemphasis, in the geographical tradition, on form and limits rather than substance. The foundations of the close links between the State and the geographers are therefore identified. Don't geographers consider themselves to be at the center of the world? Are they not observers that tend to substitute an image, a form to reality? This seems to change. Geography still retains a basic ideology, a certain way of conceptualizing space but it should not have a monopoly over its study.