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Giambattista della Porta

1535 - 1615

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Giambattista della Porta (Italian pronunciation: [dʒambatˈtista della ˈpɔrta]; 1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Counter-Reformation. Giambattista della Porta spent the majority of his life on scientific endeavours. He benefited from an informal education of tutors and visits from renowned scholars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giambattista della Porta has received more than 321,835 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Giambattista della Porta is the 159th most popular mathematician (down from 138th in 2019), the 1,112th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,009th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Giambattista della Porta is most famous for his work on the science of optics, which he published in 1586 in his book "Magia Naturalis".

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giambattista della Porta ranks 159 out of 1,004. Before him are Robert Grosseteste, Michel Rolle, Vladimir Arnold, Arthur Cayley, Menelaus of Alexandria, and Robert Aumann. After him are Simplicius of Cilicia, Wacław Sierpiński, Alonzo Church, André Weil, James Joseph Sylvester, and Pierre Bouguer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1535, Giambattista della Porta ranks 7. Before him are Pope Leo XI, Pope Gregory XIV, Sofonisba Anguissola, Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, Federico Barocci, and Alessandro Allori. After him are Shimazu Yoshihiro, Catherine Stenbock, Titu Cusi, Luis de Molina, Martin Frobisher, and Frans Hogenberg. Among people deceased in 1615, Giambattista della Porta ranks 5. Before him are Margaret of Valois, Hans von Aachen, Toyotomi Hideyori, and Sanada Yukimura. After him are Dom Justo Takayama, Heo Jun, Yodo-dono, Virginia de' Medici, Claudio Acquaviva, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giambattista della Porta ranks 1,112 out of 5,161. Before him are Gemma Galgani (1878), Giovanni Segantini (1858), Princess Carolina of Parma (1770), Peter Chrysologus (380), John Singer Sargent (1856), and Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902). After him are Giuseppe Moscati (1880), Joannes (400), Federico Zuccari (1539), Giulio Natta (1903), Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (1503), and Tigellinus (10).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giambattista della Porta ranks 16. Before him are Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Aloysius Lilius (1510), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), and Scipione del Ferro (1465). After him are Rafael Bombelli (1526), Vito Volterra (1860), Giovanni Ceva (1647), Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Paolo Ruffini (1765), and Jacopo Riccati (1676).

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