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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 20,466 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johann Baptist Cysat is the 553rd most popular mathematician (down from 501st in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 299th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 553 out of 823Before him are Richard Montague, Sylvestre François Lacroix, Giovanni Battista Zupi, Jai Singh II, Solomon Lefschetz, and Ian Stewart. After him are Michael Freedman, Evgraf Fedorov, Theodosius of Bithynia, Johann Radon, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, and Max August Zorn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 19Before him are Hamnet Shakespeare, Mary Ward, Squanto, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Pedro Teixeira, and Claude Favre de Vaugelas. After him are Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Domenico II Contarini, and Gerbrand Bredero. Among people deceased in 1657, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 20Before him are Menasseh Ben Israel, Hayashi Razan, Olimpia Maidalchini, Jacob van Eyck, John Lilburne, and Evert van Aelst. After him is William Bradford.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 355 out of 876Before him are James Pradier (1790), Adolf Meyer (1866), Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Christian Gross (1954), Claude Goretta (1929), and Françoise Giroud (1916). After him are Jules Gilliéron (1854), Eugeniusz Bodo (1899), Yann Sommer (1988), Peter Bichsel (1935), Samuel Schmid (1947), and Georges Miez (1904).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 15Before him are Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687), and Jakob Hermann (1678). After him are Ludwig Schläfli (1814), Georges de Rham (1903), Armand Borel (1923), Nicolas Fuss (1755), and Martin Hairer (1975).