Marinus of Tyre
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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 Ge
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)
Nagnata
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Nagnata or Magnata is a town noted on the co-ordinate map of the 2nd century AD Alexandrian scholar Claudius Ptolemy in the territory of the Nagnatae. It is located in northwest Hibernia between the m
1467 reproduction of Ptolemy's Ireland: a grey dot in the upper left is labelled "Magnata."
