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Ismaël Bullialdus

1605 - 1694

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Ismaël Boulliau (French: [buljo]; Latin: Ismaël Bullialdus; 28 September 1605 – 25 November 1694) was a 17th-century French astronomer and mathematician who was also interested in history, theology, classical studies, and philology. He was an active member of the Republic of Letters, an intellectual community that exchanged ideas. An early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, Ismael Bullialdus has been called "the most noted astronomer of his generation". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ismaël Bullialdus has received more than 59,275 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Ismaël Bullialdus is the 532nd most popular mathematician (down from 428th in 2019), the 3,500th most popular biography from France (down from 2,951st in 2019) and the 81st most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ismaël Bullialdus ranks 532 out of 1,004. Before him are Dai Zhen, Thomas Wright, Nina Bari, Max Noether, Heinrich Martin Weber, and Egon Pearson. After him are Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Erik Ivar Fredholm, Jakob Hermann, Sydney Chapman, Willem 's Gravesande, and Ernst Leonard Lindelöf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1605, Ismaël Bullialdus ranks 19. Before him are George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Simon Dach, Zhu Yuyue, Brynjólfur Sveinsson, and Ferenc Wesselényi. After him are Antonio Bertali, and Joos van Craesbeeck. Among people deceased in 1694, Ismaël Bullialdus ranks 16. Before him are John George IV, Elector of Saxony, Hishikawa Moronobu, Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma, Vittoria della Rovere, Johann Michael Bach, and Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena. After him is John Michael Wright.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ismaël Bullialdus ranks 3,500 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Serge Lama (1943), Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618), Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (1646), Blondel de Nesle (1155), and Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393). After him are Catherine Colonna (1956), Princess Marina Petrovna of Russia (1892), Benoît Fourneyron (1802), François Hennebique (1842), Joanni Perronet (1877), and Christophe Dugarry (1972).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Ismaël Bullialdus ranks 81. Before him are René de Saussure (1868), Jean-Étienne Montucla (1725), Johannes de Muris (1290), Jean Frédéric Frenet (1816), Louis Bachelier (1870), and Charles Julien Brianchon (1783). After him are Pierre Fatou (1878), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Henri Brocard (1845), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), and Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771).

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