Greek geographer, lived about 100 A.D..
Marinos of Tyre worked probably in Alexandria, maybe temporarily in Tyre.
His work is handed over by Ptolemaeus for whom it was an important groundwork. An added world map (Plate Carrée Map) included for the first time a graticule at which the meridian and the parallel of latitude of Rhodos were used as a orientation cross.
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