Best Chorography
William Camden (1551–1622) was an English antiquarian, historian, and topographer who served as the headmaster of Westminster School. He is best known for his 1586 publication, Britannia, the first comprehensive chorographical survey of Great Britain and Ireland. The work systematically documented t...
Pomponius Mela was a Roman geographer who wrote during the 1st century AD, hailing from a Roman province in southern Hispania. He is recognized as the author of De Situ Orbis, which is the earliest surviving geographical treatise in Latin literature. His work organized the known world into a chorogr...
John Norden was an English cartographer, surveyor, and topographical writer active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He is chiefly known for Speculum Britanniae, an ambitious series of county descriptions and maps begun in the 1590s, although only portions appeared during his li...
