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Johannes Hevelius

1611 - 1687

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Johannes Hevelius (in German also known as Hevel; Polish: Jan Heweliusz; (1611-01-28)28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of Gdańsk , in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Hevelius has received more than 253,569 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Johannes Hevelius is the 25th most popular astronomer (up from 33rd in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Poland (up from 91st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Astronomer.

Johannes Hevelius was a Polish astronomer who created the first detailed map of the moon.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johannes Hevelius ranks 25 out of 531Before him are Edmond Halley, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Charles Messier, and Giuseppe Piazzi. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Avempace, William Alfred Fowler, and Johann Gottfried Galle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1611, Johannes Hevelius ranks 5Before him are Pope Innocent XI, Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan, Chongzhen Emperor, and Evliya Çelebi. After him are Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Safi of Persia, Marie Louise Gonzaga, Cecilia Renata of Austria, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jan Fyt, and Carlo Rainaldi. Among people deceased in 1687, Johannes Hevelius ranks 3Before him are Jean-Baptiste Lully and William Petty. After him are René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Constantijn Huygens, Nicholas Mercator, Margravine Magdalene Sibylle of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Nell Gwyn, Henry More, Laura Martinozzi, Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, and François de Créquy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johannes Hevelius ranks 85 out of 1,454Before him are Anna Jagiellon (1523), Horst Köhler (1943), Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), Carl Menger (1840), Egon Krenz (1937), and Ladislaus I of Hungary (1046). After him are Krzysztof Penderecki (1933), Anton Denikin (1872), Kurt Alder (1902), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Dziga Vertov (1896), and Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Johannes Hevelius ranks 2Before him are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473). After him are Albert Marth (1828), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Robert Luther (1822), Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), and Hugo von Seeliger (1849).