See also:

• MARINUS

MARINUS OF See also:

• TYRE (Phoen. and Hebr. =" rock," Assyr. S'urru, Egypt. Dara, Early Lat. Sarra)

TYRE  , geographer and mathematician, the founder of mathematical See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography, flourished in the 2nd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D . He lived before See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy, who acknowledges his See also:

• GREAT

great obligations to him . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief merits were that he assigned to each See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place its proper See also:

• LATITUDE (Lat. latitudo, latus, broad)

latitude and longtitude, and introduced improvements in the construction of his maps . He also care-fully studied the See also:

• WORKS

works of his predecessors and the diaries of travellers . His See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical See also:

• TREATISE

treatise is lost . See A . Forbiger, Handbuch der See also:

• ALTEN, SIR CHARLES [Karl] (1764–1840)

alten Geographie, vol. i . (1842) ; E . H . See also:

• SUNBURY

Sunbury, Hist. of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Geography (1879), ii. p . 519; and especially E . H .

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