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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 84,359 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Andreas Cellarius is the 160th most popular astronomer (down from 129th in 2019), the 1,988th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,511th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Andreas Cellarius ranks 160 out of 531Before him are Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Jean Chacornac, Jacobus Kapteyn, Jean Picard, Tobias Mayer, and Vesto Slipher. After him are N. R. Pogson, Henry Draper, Cleomedes, Antonio Abetti, George William Hill, and Wilhelm Beer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1596, Andreas Cellarius ranks 18Before him are Joan Blaeu, Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, Johan Banér, Jean Bolland, Constantijn Huygens, and Jacob van Campen. After him are Thomas de Keyser, Leonaert Bramer, Heinrich Scheidemann, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and Bertuccio Valier. Among people deceased in 1665, Andreas Cellarius ranks 14Before him are Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Stefan Czarniecki, Jean Bolland, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, and Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat. After him are 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 1,988 out of 6,142Before him are Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757), Franz Aepinus (1724), Carl Oberg (1897), Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1855), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), and Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782). After him are John II, Duke of Bavaria (1341), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Karl Ernst (1904), Paul Gerhardt (1607), Lotte Reiniger (1899), and William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Andreas Cellarius ranks 30Before him are Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Hermann Goldschmidt (1802), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Johann Franz Encke (1791), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), and Tobias Mayer (1723). After him are Wilhelm Beer (1797), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), August Kopff (1882), Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), and Johannes Fabricius (1587).