Strabo was a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
16th-century engraving of Strabo
Title page from Isaac Casaubon's 1620 edition of Geographica
Statue of Strabo in his hometown (modern-day Amasya, Turkey)
A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" and the Greek suffix, "graphy", meaning "description", so a geographer is someone who studies the earth. The word "geography" is a Middle French word that is believed to have been first used in 1540.
The Geographer (1668-69), by Johannes Vermeer
Gerardus Mercator