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Andreas Cellarius

1596 - 1665

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Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596–1665) was a Dutch–German cartographer and cosmographer best known for his 1660 Harmonia Macrocosmica, a major star atlas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andreas Cellarius has received more than 91,399 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Andreas Cellarius is the 194th most popular astronomer (down from 160th in 2019), the 2,233rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,986th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Andreas Cellarius ranks 194 out of 644Before him are Edward L. G. Bowell, Andrew Graham, Robert Grant Aitken, Yrjö Väisälä, Liisi Oterma, and Eleanor F. Helin. After him are Francis Baily, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Martin Schwarzschild, Peter Andreas Hansen, Jeremiah Horrocks, and Bernard Lyot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1596, Andreas Cellarius ranks 17Before him are Peter Mogila, Johan Banér, Joan Blaeu, Jacob van Campen, Constantijn Huygens, and Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano. After him are Jean Bolland, Leonaert Bramer, Ebba Brahe, Thomas de Keyser, Heinrich Scheidemann, and Abraham van Diepenbeeck. Among people deceased in 1665, Andreas Cellarius ranks 12Before him are Stefan Czarniecki, César, Duke of Vendôme, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, and Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat. After him are Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Jean Bolland, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Lorenzo Lippi, and Maria Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Cellarius ranks 2,233 out of 7,253Before him are Willi Münzenberg (1889), C. W. Ceram (1915), Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), Mathias Rust (1968), Fred Uhlman (1901), and Hermann Ehrhardt (1881). After him are Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), Floris III, Count of Holland (1141), Ralf Schumacher (1975), Louis of Nassau (1538), and Walter Eucken (1891).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Andreas Cellarius ranks 33Before him are Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), August Kopff (1882), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), Tobias Mayer (1723), and Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745). After him are Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780), Johannes Fabricius (1587), and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834).