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Giuseppe Piazzi

1746 - 1826

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Giuseppe Piazzi (US: PYAHT-see, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈpjattsi]; 16 July 1746 – 22 July 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Piazzi has received more than 210,062 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Giuseppe Piazzi is the 27th most popular astronomer (down from 24th in 2019), the 535th most popular biography from Italy (up from 545th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Astronomer.

Giuseppe Piazzi is most famous for discovering the first asteroid, Ceres, in 1801.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 27 out of 644. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Avempace, Edmond Halley, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Charles Greeley Abbot, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. After him are Robert Luther, Caroline Herschel, Johannes Hevelius, Johann Gottfried Galle, Wilhelm Schickard, and Martin Ryle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 7. Before him are Francisco Goya, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Carlo Buonaparte, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Gaspard Monge, and Gustav III of Sweden. After him are Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, and Giovanni Battista Venturi. Among people deceased in 1826, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, Carl Maria von Weber, and John Adams. After him are John VI of Portugal, Joseph von Fraunhofer, René Laennec, Philippe Pinel, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Joseph Proust, Stamford Raffles, and Elizabeth Alexeievna.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 535 out of 5,161. Before him are Marcello Lippi (1948), Elisabeth Farnese (1692), Conrad IV of Germany (1228), Lucullus (-118), Pope John III (520), and Pope John XIV (1000). After him are Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1416), Gianni Rodari (1920), Giulio Andreotti (1919), Carlo Gesualdo (1566), Peter Lombard (1096), and Constance, Queen of Sicily (1154).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 4. Before him are Galileo Galilei (1564), Giordano Bruno (1548), and Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625). After him are Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Riccardo Giacconi (1931), Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), Girolamo Fracastoro (1476), Angelo Secchi (1818), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658).

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