The Tabula Peutingeriana is named for 16th-century German antiquarian Konrad Peutinger, who was gifted the map by its discoverer Conrad Celtes following his death.… See more

photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Francesco di Antonio del Chierico While every geographer on this list was important, Ptolemy’s contributions (through building on the work fro… See more

photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Edward Bunbury Pomponius Mela is the earliest known Roman geographer; the geographers before him had all been Greek. For … See more

photo source: Wikimedia Commons While many of the works of the early geographers is only known through later secondary sources, Strabo’s Geographica has survived al… See more