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Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux

1718 - 1751

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Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ filip lois də ʃezo]; 4 May 1718 – 30 November 1751) was a Swiss astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux has received more than 1,377 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux is the 179th most popular astronomer (up from 203rd in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 231st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux ranks 179 out of 531. Before him are Gan De, Erasmus Reinhold, John Goodricke, Dominique, comte de Cassini, August Kopff, and William Henry Pickering. After him are Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Margherita Hack, John Bevis, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Francis Preserved Leavenworth, and Jean-Louis Pons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1718, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux ranks 9. Before him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Anna Leopoldovna, Thomas Chippendale, Alexander Roslin, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, and Nikita Ivanovich Panin. After him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Antoine de Chézy, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, John Canton, and Johan Ernst Gunnerus. Among people deceased in 1751, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux ranks 11. Before him are Frederick, Prince of Wales, Jacques I, Prince of Monaco, Louise of Great Britain, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Peter Lacy, and Christopher Polhem. After him are Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Robert Maynard, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Nicola Salvi, János Pálffy, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux ranks 218 out of 876. Before him are Jean Ziegler (1934), Carlo Fontana (1638), Jost Amman (1539), Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Heinrich Glarean (1488), and Jean Vanier (1928). After him are Ubol Ratana (1951), Louis of Cyprus (1436), Eugène Grasset (1845), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), and Pierre Jeanneret (1896).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux ranks 2. Before him are Michel Mayor (1942). After him are Rudolf Wolf (1816), Didier Queloz (1966), Paul Wild (1925), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Robert Emden (1862).

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