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Marinus of Tyre

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Greek cartographer and mathematician (c.70-130)

ScientistsLived 100 to 130 · aged 30
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Marinus of Tyre was a Greek-speaking Phoenician Roman geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography and provided the underpinnings of Claudius Ptolemy's influential Geography.

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Cover for "Tabulae geographicae" (1578), work of Ptolemy. Depicted are both Ptolemy and Marinus of Tyre, very likely in this order.Cover for "Tabulae geographicae" (1578), work of Ptolemy. Depicted are both Ptolemy and Marinus of Tyre, very likely in this order.Lunar crater Marinus (NASA 1967)Lunar crater Marinus (NASA 1967)

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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 100 to 130 · aged 30
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23 languages

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