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Giovanni Antonio Magini

1555 - 1617

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Giovanni Antonio Magini (in Latin, Maginus) (13 June 1555 – 11 February 1617) was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Antonio Magini has received more than 40,864 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Giovanni Antonio Magini is the 447th most popular mathematician (up from 492nd in 2019), the 2,648th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,701st in 2019) and the 39th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 447 out of 1,004Before him are Pierre Wantzel, Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Jacques Ozanam, Christian Kramp, Whitfield Diffie, and Cato Maximilian Guldberg. After him are Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Oscar Zariski, Yves Meyer, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Francesco Maurolico, and Yang Hui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1555, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 16Before him are Johann Arndt, Louise de Coligny, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Charles II, Lord of Monaco, Moderata Fonte, and Antonio Tempesta. After him is Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi. Among people deceased in 1617, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 18Before him are Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Giovanni Botero, Leonora Dori, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, and Prospero Alpini. After him are Dorothea Maria of Anhalt, Isaac Oliver, and François d'Aguilon.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 2,648 out of 5,161Before him are Robertino Loreti (1947), Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661), Angelo Branduardi (1950), Monimus (-400), Enrico Toselli (1883), and Letizia Battaglia (1935). After him are Giovanni Animuccia (1520), Franco Rossi (1919), Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532), Francesco Manfredini (1684), Cesare Siepi (1923), and Giancarlo Baghetti (1934).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 39Before him are Eugenio Beltrami (1835), Campanus of Novara (1210), Benedetto Castelli (1578), Enrico Betti (1823), Guido Fubini (1879), and Luigi Cremona (1830). After him are Francesco Maurolico (1494), Daniele Barbaro (1513), Federico Commandino (1509), Eugenio Calabi (1923), Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728), and Gino Fano (1871).