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Bartholomaeus Pitiscus

1561 - 1613

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Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (also Barthélemy or Bartholomeo; August 24, 1561 – August 24, 1613) was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bartholomaeus Pitiscus has received more than 41,352 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bartholomaeus Pitiscus is the 306th most popular astronomer, the 746th most popular biography from Poland and the 10th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus ranks 306 out of 644. Before him are Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Carl Gustav Witt, Antonia Maury, Hermann von Struve, and Wilhelm Gliese. After him are Richard Christopher Carrington, Otto August Rosenberger, Franz Kaiser, Karl Christian Bruhns, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, and Adam Riess.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1561, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus ranks 13. Before him are Henry Briggs, Ii Naomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Thomas Fincke, Adriaan van Roomen, and Philippe van Lansberge. After him are John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, Basilius Besler, and Mary Sidney. Among people deceased in 1613, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus ranks 13. Before him are Cigoli, Gabriel Báthory, Salima Sultan Begum, Giovanni Artusi, Johann Bauhin, and Hypatius Pociej. After him is Mikalojus Daukša.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus ranks 746 out of 1,694. Before him are Gustav Adolf von Götzen (1866), Basia (1954), Marcin Bielski (1495), Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762), Jan Olszewski (1930), and Wilhelm Gliese (1915). After him are Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879), Ryszard Kukliński (1930), Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769), Juliusz Kossak (1824), Willy Fritsch (1901), and Rudolf Ramek (1881).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus ranks 10. Before him are Albert Marth (1828), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), and Wilhelm Gliese (1915). After him are Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), Adalbert Krueger (1832), and Kazimierz Kordylewski (1903).

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