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MARINUS OF TYRE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 722 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARINUS OF See also:TYRE , geographer and mathematician, the founder of mathematical See also:geography, flourished in the 2nd See also:century A.D. He lived before See also:Ptolemy, who acknowledges his See also:great obligations to him. His See also:chief merits were that he assigned to each See also:place its proper See also:latitude and longtitude, and introduced improvements in the construction of his maps. He also care-fully studied the See also:works of his predecessors and the diaries of travellers. His See also:geographical See also:treatise is lost. See A. Forbiger, Handbuch der See also:alten Geographie, vol. i. (1842) ; E. H. See also:Sunbury, Hist. of See also:Ancient Geography (1879), ii. p. 519; and especially E. H.

Berger, Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Erdkunde der Griechen (1903).

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