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Giovanni Domenico Maraldi

1709 - 1788

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Giovanni Domenico (French: Jean-Dominique) Maraldi (17 April 1709 – 14 November 1788) was an Italian-born astronomer, nephew of Giacomo F. Maraldi. Born at Perinaldo, Republic of Genoa, Maraldi came to Paris in 1727 and became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1731. There, while observing Comet De Chéseaux with Jacques Cassini in 1746, he discovered two "nebulous stars", which later turned out to be globular clusters M15 and M2. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Domenico Maraldi has received more than 11,858 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Domenico Maraldi is the 243rd most popular astronomer (down from 199th in 2019), the 2,537th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,196th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 243 out of 644. Before him are Cleostratus, Johannes Schöner, Thomas Gold, Guillaume Le Gentil, George Mary Searle, and Giovanni Battista Donati. After him are Jean Fernel, Wilhelm von Biela, César-François Cassini de Thury, Oenopides, Vesto Slipher, and William Wallace Campbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 18. Before him are Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, Johann Georg Gmelin, Franz Xaver Richter, and Étienne de Silhouette. After him are John Cleland, Francesco Araja, Antonio Rinaldi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Molla Vali Vidadi. Among people deceased in 1788, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 20. Before him are Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Toriyama Sekien, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, and Pierre André de Suffren. After him are Charles Wesley, Salomon Gessner, Francesco Zuccarelli, Mary Delany, Juan Bautista de Anza, and John Whitehurst.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 2,537 out of 5,161. Before him are Marco I Sanudo (1200), Luigi Cremona (1830), Greta Scacchi (1960), Giuseppe Taddei (1916), Rosanna Schiaffino (1939), and Geminianus (312). After him are Francesco Dandolo (1258), Isabella Andreini (1562), Francesco Moser (1951), Moana Pozzi (1961), Luigi Zampa (1905), and Lorenzo Baldisseri (1940).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 15. Before him are Girolamo Fracastoro (1476), Angelo Secchi (1818), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658), Margherita Hack (1922), and Giovanni Battista Donati (1826). After him are Guido Bonatti (1210), Niccolò Zucchi (1586), Luigi Carnera (1875), Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio (1330), Caterina Scarpellini (1808), and Ercole Dembowski (1812).

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