Roman Geographers and their contribution

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Strabo (64 BC-AD 20):

  •  Written ‘Geographica’.
  •  Highlight the intimate relation between history and geography.
  •  Tried to find out the influence of the physical features of an area.
  •  Considered as the ‘father of regional geography’.
  •  He was the first to declared geography as a chronological science.

Ptolemy (AD 90-168):

  •  A great astronomer and outstanding mathematical geographer.
  •  A major contribution to cartography has been used of graticule of latitude and longitude and mathematical construction of map projection.
  •  Written ‘Almagest’ and ‘Outline of geography’ and ‘Guide to geography’.

Solinus (AD 250):

  •  Written ‘Collective Return Memorabilium’.

Pomponius Mela (AD 335-391):

  •  Wrote ‘De Chorographia and Cosmography’.
  •  Divided the world into five macro regions.
  •  Provided the detail accounts of northern temperate region.

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