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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 38,216 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Giovanni Antonio Magini is the 493rd most popular mathematician (down from 459th in 2019), the 2,707th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,460th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Italian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 493 out of 823Before him are Harold Jeffreys, Paul Halmos, William Thurston, Willem 's Gravesande, Johannes de Muris, and John Pell. After him are Jacques Herbrand, Louis Bachelier, Georg Mohr, Jacques Ozanam, Frigyes Riesz, and Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1555, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 15Before him are Konishi Yukinaga, Andreas Libavius, Dong Qichang, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and Moderata Fonte.  Among people deceased in 1617, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 16Before him are 4th Dalai Lama, Fausto Veranzio, Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Giovanni Botero, Prospero Alpini, and Dorothea Maria of Anhalt. After him is Isaac Oliver.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 2,707 out of 4,668Before him are Luigi Poggi (1917), Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826), Blanche of Montferrat (1472), Graziadio Isaia Ascoli (1829), Alberto Burri (1915), and Giacomo Ceruti (1698). After him are Pietro Serantoni (1906), Steno (1917), Robertino Loreti (1947), Marco Cornaro (1285), Gianni De Biasi (1956), and Elio Vittorini (1908).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giovanni Antonio Magini ranks 38Before him are Guido Fubini (1879), Ignazio Danti (1536), Daniele Barbaro (1513), Luigi Cremona (1830), Francesco Maurolico (1494), and Enrico Betti (1823). After him are Benedetto Castelli (1578), Campanus of Novara (1210), Maria Angela Ardinghelli (1728), Ulisse Dini (1845), Pietro Mengoli (1626), and Giovanni Battista Zupi (1589).