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Johann Baptist Cysat

1585 - 1657

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Johann Baptist Cysat (Latinized as Cysatus; in French, Jean-Baptiste Cysat) (c. 1587 – March 17, 1657) was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer, after whom the lunar crater Cysatus is named. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Baptist Cysat has received more than 22,160 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Johann Baptist Cysat is the 509th most popular mathematician (up from 551st in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 354th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 509 out of 1,004. Before him are Jean Frédéric Frenet, Gerd Faltings, Louis Bachelier, Charles Julien Brianchon, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, and Hillel Furstenberg. After him are Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Otto Hölder, Kushyar Gilani, Hermann Bondi, Peter Lax, and 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 16. Before him are Zacharias Janssen, John Rolfe, Jacques Lemercier, Mary Ward, Massimo Stanzione, and Hamnet Shakespeare. After him are Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Pedro Teixeira, Domenico II Contarini, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, and Francesco Cornaro. Among people deceased in 1657, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 18. Before him are Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine, Hayashi Razan, Robert Blake, Olimpia Maidalchini, Jacob van Eyck, and Menasseh Ben Israel. After him are Evert van Aelst, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, John Lilburne, William Bradford, and Dilras Banu Begum.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 337 out of 1,015. Before him are Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Bertha Wegmann (1847), Arnold Henry Guyot (1807), Silvio Moser (1941), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), and Carl Meissner (1800). After him are Felix Manz (1498), Johann Bauhin (1541), Georges Cottier (1922), Hector Hodler (1887), Claude Goretta (1929), and Gustav Wiederkehr (1905).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 13. Before him are Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750). After him are Jakob Hermann (1678), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), Nicolas Fuss (1755), Georges de Rham (1903), Armand Borel (1923), and Ludwig Schläfli (1814).

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