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MARINUS OF TYRE

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

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

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