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Giovanni Battista Riccioli

1598 - 1671

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Giovanni Battista Riccioli, SJ (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature. He is also widely known for discovering the first double star. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Riccioli has received more than 148,522 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Riccioli is the 85th most popular astronomer, the 1,136th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,214th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Giovanni Battista Riccioli ranks 85 out of 644. Before him are George Darwin, Russell Alan Hulse, Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī, Percival Lowell, Lewis A. Swift, and Ejnar Hertzsprung. After him are Victor Ambartsumian, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Edward Emerson Barnard, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., Girolamo Fracastoro, and Johann Palisa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1598, Giovanni Battista Riccioli ranks 6. Before him are Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bonaventura Cavalieri, François Mansart, and Eleonora Gonzaga. After him are Maarten Tromp, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Johann Crüger, Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Michael van Langren, and Daniele Crespi. Among people deceased in 1671, Giovanni Battista Riccioli ranks 3. Before him are Stenka Razin, and François Vatel. After him are Anne Hyde, Adam Olearius, Fran Krsto Frankopan, Petar Zrinski, Sébastien Bourdon, Sophia Eleonore of Saxony, Roche Braziliano, Yerofey Khabarov, and Antonio Barberini.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Riccioli ranks 1,136 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Durante (1684), Ferdinand II of Naples (1467), Liutprand of Cremona (922), Taddeo Gaddi (1290), Romano Guardini (1885), and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1843). After him are Lorenzo Monaco (1370), Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417), William III of Sicily (1185), Francesco Albani (1578), Vladimir Bartol (1903), and Ivanoe Bonomi (1873).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Riccioli ranks 8. Before him are Giordano Bruno (1548), Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625), Giuseppe Piazzi (1746), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), and Riccardo Giacconi (1931). After him are Girolamo Fracastoro (1476), Angelo Secchi (1818), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658), Margherita Hack (1922), and Giovanni Battista Donati (1826).

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