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Jean Picard

1620 - 1682

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Jean Picard (21 July 1620 – 12 July 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He is principally notable for his accurate measure of the size of the Earth, based on a careful survey of one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Picard has received more than 121,513 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jean Picard is the 106th most popular astronomer (up from 157th in 2019), the 1,439th most popular biography from France (up from 2,079th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean Picard ranks 106 out of 644. Before him are Reinhard Genzel, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Adelard of Bath, Annie Jump Cannon, and Angelo Secchi. After him are Petrus Plancius, James Van Allen, Henry Norris Russell, Karl Ludwig Harding, William Huggins, and Édouard Stephan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Jean Picard ranks 7. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Ninon de l'Enclos, Edme Mariotte, Avvakum, Aelbert Cuyp, and Pierre Puget. After him are Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, John Graunt, François Bernier, and Nicholas Mercator. Among people deceased in 1682, Jean Picard ranks 12. Before him are Jacob van Ruisdael, Jacob Kettler, Johann Joachim Becher, Avvakum, Baldassare Longhena, and Alessandro Stradella. After him are Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Thomas Browne, Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Gu Yanwu, Heo Mok, and Yohannes I.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Picard ranks 1,439 out of 6,770. Before him are Patrick Depailler (1944), François Rude (1784), Jean-Claude Pascal (1927), Claude Gensac (1927), Omar Sy (1978), and Chris Marker (1921). After him are Victorinus (300), Ferdinand Buisson (1841), Edmond François Valentin About (1828), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), David Trezeguet (1977), and Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (1725).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jean Picard ranks 8. Before him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Jérôme Lalande (1732), Pierre Janssen (1824), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), and Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580). After him are Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Auguste Charlois (1864), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723).

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