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John Machin

1680 - 1751

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John Machin (bapt. c. 1686 – June 9, 1751) was a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Machin has received more than 94,315 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. John Machin is the 279th most popular astronomer (up from 283rd in 2019), the 2,316th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,436th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, John Machin ranks 279 out of 644. Before him are Freimut Börngen, Luigi Carnera, Paul Wild, Kidinnu, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, and Vladimir Albitsky. After him are Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Halton Arp, Allan Sandage, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Charles T. Kowal, and Carl Charlier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, John Machin ranks 13. Before him are Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Richard Cantillon, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Bulleh Shah, Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, and Johann Baptist Zimmermann. After him are Ephraim Chambers, Emanuele d'Astorga, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Angelo Maria Querini, Philippe Néricault Destouches, and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. Among people deceased in 1751, John Machin ranks 19. Before him are Leonard of Port Maurice, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Nicola Salvi, Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, and János Pálffy. After him are Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, George Graham, Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen, Henri François d'Aguesseau, Benjamin Robins, and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Machin ranks 2,316 out of 8,785. Before him are John Playfair (1748), Rachel Roberts (1927), David Tomlinson (1917), John Scott Haldane (1860), Murray Head (1946), and Martin Donnelly (1964). After him are Edward Wilson (1872), Julian Bream (1933), Roy Salvadori (1922), Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880), Chris Squire (1948), and Guy Edwards (1942).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, John Machin ranks 37. Before him are David Gill (1843), John Bevis (1695), Cyril Jackson (1903), George Mary Searle (1839), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), and Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838). After him are John Michell (1724), Alfred Fowler (1868), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), and Beatrice Tinsley (1941).

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