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César-François Cassini de Thury

1714 - 1784

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César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of César-François Cassini de Thury has received more than 66,897 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). César-François Cassini de Thury is the 246th most popular astronomer (down from 219th in 2019), the 2,990th most popular biography from France (down from 2,726th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Astronomer.

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  • 53.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, César-François Cassini de Thury ranks 246 out of 644. Before him are Guillaume Le Gentil, George Mary Searle, Giovanni Battista Donati, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Jean Fernel, and Wilhelm von Biela. After him are Oenopides, Vesto Slipher, William Wallace Campbell, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Bengt Strömgren, and Charles Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, César-François Cassini de Thury ranks 18. Before him are Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine, Kosmas the Aetolian, and George Whitefield. After him are Emer de Vattel, Richard Wilson, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Anna Morandi Manzolini, Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, and Ranieri de' Calzabigi. Among people deceased in 1784, César-François Cassini de Thury ranks 12. Before him are Giovanni Battista Martini, Junípero Serra, Torbern Bergman, Otto Friedrich Müller, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, and Abraham Trembley. After him are Anders Johan Lexell, Allan Ramsay, Jean-François Séguier, and Caesar Rodney.

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In France

Among people born in France, César-François Cassini de Thury ranks 2,990 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825), Pierre Vernier (1580), Charles, Prince Napoléon (1950), Anne Jules de Noailles (1650), Émilie de Villeneuve (1811), and William IV, Count of Toulouse (1045). After him are Charles Nungesser (1892), Pierre Benoit (1886), François-Hubert Drouais (1727), Henri Mathias Berthelot (1861), Jean Lorrain (1855), and Claude François de Malet (1754).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, César-François Cassini de Thury ranks 23. Before him are Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), and Jean Fernel (1497). After him are Charles Wolf (1827), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), and Rudolph Minkowski (1895).

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