Talk:Marinos of Tyre

Translation
This is the version of Wikipedia in English, however the article is in Greek. Can we have a translation please? --Dumbo1 00:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Translation
I don't have the time to figure out all of this, but I'll put the original in here on the talk page and change what few sentances are simple enough to figure out on the main page.

For reference, the original was: Ο Μαρίνος από την Τύρο (περί το 170 - 250 μ.Χ.) ήταν Έλληνας γεωγράφος και χαρτογράφος από την Τύρο. Θεωρείται ως ο θεμελιωτής της μαθηματικής γεωγραφίας, περιγράφοντας με μεγαλύτερη σαφήνεια από όλους τους παλαιότερους γεωγράφους τη βόρεια Ευρώπη, υποστηρίζοντας το μεσημβρινό των Μακάρων ως αφετηρία για τη μέτρηση των μηκών, προηγούμενος έτσι του Πτολεμαίου Κλαύδιου, συντάσσοντας γεωγραφικούς πίνακες. Ο Πτολεμαίος τον περιλαμβάνει στη Γεωγραφική του Υφήγηση, αναφέροντας τα Περί Μαρίνου γεωγραφικής υφηγήσεως, Διόρθωσις του πλάτους εγνωσμένης γης διαστάσεως από των φαινομένων και διόρθωσις από των διανύσεων των κατά τας οδοιπορίας και ... των κατά πλουν διανύσεων.

Thanatosimii 02:08, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

machine translation
This is Altavista's machine translation:

It is considered as cemeljwti's the mathematic geography, describing with bigger clarity than all the older geographers northern Europe, supporting the meridian of Maka'rwn as starting line for the measurement of lengths, previous thus the Ptolemaj'oy Klay'djoy, drawing up geographic tables. The Ptolemaj'os him includes in Geographic the Yfi'gisi, reporting him Perj [from?] 'Marj'noy geographic yfigi'sews, Correction of width of egnwsme'nis ground of dimension from 'the phenomena' and correction from 'the coverings at tas trekking and... at ployn [pylon?] coverings'.

Hope it helps.

--Auric 17:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Merge proposal
There are to be 2 article, Marinos of Tyre and Marinus of Tyre. Marinos is likely to be the Greek Spelling and Marinus the Latin. Both have scholarly references to support them. Since the individual is neither Greek nor Roman but Syrian, I suggest we go with the most commonly used and mention both spellings in the article. The Google search for the 2 spellings as a full text string are as follows:-


 * "Marinos of Tyre" = 979
 * "Marinus of Tyre" = 3780


 * Note also that Britannica, both the modern version  and the 1911  use Marinus.
 * The Columbia Encyclopedia also uses Marinus.

I propose that Marinus of Tyre be the merged article. Lumos3 (talk) 11:05, 2 April 2008 (UTC)