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Francesco Maurolico

1494 - 1575

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Francesco Maurolico (Latin: Franciscus Maurolycus; Italian: Francesco Maurolico; Greek: Φραγκίσκος Μαυρόλυκος; Sicilian: Francescu Maurolicu; 16 September 1494 – 22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer from the Kingdom of Sicily. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. He edited the works of classical authors including Archimedes, Apollonius, Autolycus, Theodosius and Serenus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Maurolico has received more than 62,240 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Francesco Maurolico is the 452nd most popular mathematician (down from 450th in 2019), the 2,665th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,564th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Francesco Maurolico ranks 452 out of 1,004. Before him are Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Oscar Zariski, Yves Meyer, and Jacques Philippe Marie Binet. After him are Yang Hui, William Thurston, Richard E. Bellman, Edmund Gunter, Yuri Manin, and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Francesco Maurolico ranks 22. Before him are Oronce Finé, Hans Tausen, Antoinette de Bourbon, Ambrosius Holbein, Christina Gyllenstierna, and Domingo de Soto. After him are Johannes Agricola, Pierre Attaingnant, Qiu Ying, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, and David Beaton. Among people deceased in 1575, Francesco Maurolico ranks 10. Before him are Matthias Flacius, Heinrich Bullinger, Claude of France, Antonis Mor, Cornelis Floris de Vriendt, and Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him are Federico Commandino, Annibale Padovano, Baba Nobuharu, Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern, Marcin Bielski, and Corneille de Lyon.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Maurolico ranks 2,665 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Dolfin (1303), Magda Olivero (1910), Pierino Prati (1946), Liliana Segre (1930), Sebastiano Baggio (1913), and Giovanni Morone (1509). After him are Roberto Rosato (1943), Osvaldo Cavandoli (1920), Gaetano Pugnani (1731), Lorenzo Lippi (1606), Francesca Neri (1964), and Walter de Silva (1951).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Francesco Maurolico ranks 40. Before him are Campanus of Novara (1210), Benedetto Castelli (1578), Enrico Betti (1823), Guido Fubini (1879), Luigi Cremona (1830), and Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555). After him are Daniele Barbaro (1513), Federico Commandino (1509), Eugenio Calabi (1923), Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728), Gino Fano (1871), and Giacomo F. Maraldi (1665).

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