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Antonio de Ulloa

1716 - 1795

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Antonio de Ulloa (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish Navy officer, scientist and colonial administrator. At the age of nineteen, he joined the French Geodesic Mission to South America. The mission took more than eight years to complete its work, during which time Ulloa made many astronomical, natural, and social observations in South America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio de Ulloa has received more than 189,858 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Antonio de Ulloa is the 216th most popular astronomer (down from 186th in 2019), the 809th most popular biography from Spain (down from 752nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Spanish Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.17

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  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Antonio de Ulloa ranks 216 out of 644. Before him are Milton L. Humason, Dominique, comte de Cassini, David Gill, James Craig Watson, Erasmus Reinhold, and Johann Heinrich von Mädler. After him are Rudolf Wolf, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, John Bevis, Sergey Belyavsky, and Benjamin Baillaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Antonio de Ulloa ranks 8. Before him are Yosa Buson, Étienne Maurice Falconet, James Lind, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy. After him are Yuan Mei, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Thomas Gray, Luis Egidio Meléndez, Pehr Kalm, and Eugenios Voulgaris. Among people deceased in 1795, Antonio de Ulloa ranks 20. Before him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, Samuel Wallis, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Pieter Boddaert, and Jean-Jacques Barthélemy. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Michel Corrette, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Grigory Shelikhov, and Francisco Bayeu y Subías.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Antonio de Ulloa ranks 809 out of 3,355. Before him are Narcís Monturiol (1819), Ahmad al-Muqtadir (1050), Domènec Balmanya (1914), Ana María Matute (1925), Francisco de Bobadilla (1500), and Álvaro Morata (1992). After him are Ismail I of Granada (1279), Nicolás de Ovando (1451), Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820), Miguel Reina (1946), Alonso de Ercilla (1533), and Gonzalo Guerrero (1470).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Spain

Among astronomers born in Spain, Antonio de Ulloa ranks 5. Before him are Avempace (1080), Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (1029), Maslama al-Majriti (950), and Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (1200). After him are Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi (1220), and Josep Comas i Solà (1868).

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