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.