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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, Liguria, 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 10,927 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Domenico Maraldi is the 199th most popular astronomer (up from 264th in 2019), the 2,201st most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,554th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 199 out of 531. Before him are Joel Hastings Metcalf, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Maximilian Hell, Mariam al-Asturlabi, Otto Struve, and Edward Walter Maunder. After him are Johann Heinrich von Mädler, James Dunlop, Johannes Fabricius, Rudolf Wolf, William Wallace Campbell, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 17. Before him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Franz Xaver Richter, Johann Georg Gmelin, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, and Charles de Brosses. After him are John Cleland, Étienne de Silhouette, Francesco Araja, Antonio Rinaldi, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Charles Avison. Among people deceased in 1788, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 17. Before him are Infante Gabriel of Spain, José, Prince of Brazil, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Toriyama Sekien, and Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg. After him are François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Pierre André de Suffren, Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal, Charles Wesley, Salomon Gessner, and Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 2,201 out of 4,668. Before him are Nedo Nadi (1894), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), Pietro Lando (1462), Taddea Visconti (1351), Gianluca Zambrotta (1977), and Anne Marie Martinozzi (1637). After him are Apostolo Zeno (1668), Giacomo Quarenghi (1744), Musa of Parthia (-40), Antonio Vivarini (1440), Federico Gravina (1756), and Liutpert (680).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi ranks 14. Before him are Riccardo Giacconi (1931), Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), Angelo Secchi (1818), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658), and Margherita Hack (1922). After him are Giovanni Battista Donati (1826), Niccolò Zucchi (1586), Giorgio Abetti (1882), Geminiano Montanari (1633), Luigi Carnera (1875), and Elia Millosevich (1848).

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