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Jean Richer

1630 - 1696

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Jean Richer (1630–1696) was a French astronomer and assistant (élève astronome) at the French Academy of Sciences, under the direction of Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Between 1671 and 1673 he performed experiments and carried out celestial observations in Cayenne, French Guiana, at the request of the French Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Richer has received more than 45,072 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Richer is the 363rd most popular astronomer (down from 270th in 2019).

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean Richer ranks 363 out of 644. Before him are Georg Marcgrave, Beatrice Tinsley, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Giorgio Abetti, and Heber Doust Curtis. After him are Carl Keenan Seyfert, Richard Martin West, Dirk Brouwer, Alvan Graham Clark, Paul Götz, and Ralph Copeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1630, Jean Richer ranks 24. Before him are Nikolay Diletsky, Guru Har Rai, Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp, Lorenzo Gafà, Cornelis Pietersz Bega, and Silvestro Valier. After him are Sultan Bahu, Kaibara Ekken, and Lucy Walter. Among people deceased in 1696, Jean Richer ranks 16. Before him are Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Murad Giray, Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Shi Lang, Jean Domat, and Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans. After him are Gregório de Matos, and Wacław Potocki.

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