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Eise Eisinga

1744 - 1828

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Eise Jeltes Eisinga (21 February 1744 – 27 August 1828) was a Frisian amateur astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Dutch Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eise Eisinga has received more than 63,578 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Eise Eisinga is the 323rd most popular astronomer, the 575th most popular biography from Netherlands and the 14th most popular Dutch Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Eise Eisinga ranks 323 out of 644Before him are Georges Rayet, Sylvain Arend, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Ercole Dembowski, Maarten Schmidt, and Herbert Hall Turner. After him are Fang Lizhi, David H. Levy, Félix Tisserand, Christine Kirch, Joseph Helffrich, and Jing Fang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1744, Eise Eisinga ranks 19Before him are Elbridge Gerry, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Marianna Martines, and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin. After him are Micaela Bastidas, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Nikolay Novikov, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, Johann III Bernoulli, and David Allan. Among people deceased in 1828, Eise Eisinga ranks 29Before him are Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Gilbert Stuart, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Lady Caroline Lamb, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, and Jacques Lauriston. After him are François Isaac de Rivaz, Albrecht Thaer, Christian August Lorentzen, Michael von Kienmayer, Manuel Dorrego, and Anne Seymour Damer.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Eise Eisinga ranks 575 out of 1,646Before him are Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619), Willem Marinus Dudok (1884), Gysbert Japiks (1603), Maruschka Detmers (1962), Neelie Kroes (1941), and Maarten Schmidt (1929). After him are Jan de Vries (1944), Arie van Vliet (1916), Arie den Hartog (1941), Kees Kist (1952), Jan Mostaert (1475), and Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1562).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Netherlands

Among astronomers born in Netherlands, Eise Eisinga ranks 14Before him are Peter van de Kamp (1901), Jacobus Kapteyn (1851), Adriaan Blaauw (1914), Walter Lewin (1936), Michael van Langren (1598), and Maarten Schmidt (1929). After him are Adriaan van Maanen (1884), Bart Bok (1906), Dirk Brouwer (1902), Hendrik van Gent (1900), Frederik Kaiser (1808), and Kees de Jager (1921).