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John Wilkins

1614 - 1672

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John Wilkins (14 February 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death. Wilkins is one of the few persons to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wilkins has received more than 273,488 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. John Wilkins is the 277th most popular mathematician (up from 278th in 2019), the 1,385th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,380th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Wilkins ranks 277 out of 823. Before him are Seki Takakazu, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Emil Artin, Liu Xin, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Eugenio Beltrami. After him are Adolf Hurwitz, Richard S. Hamilton, Guillaume Postel, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Vergilius of Salzburg, and Olga Ladyzhenskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1614, John Wilkins ranks 5. Before him are Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Franciscus Sylvius, Juan Carreño de Miranda, and Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Henry II, Duke of Guise, Michał Boym, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Martino Martini, Henry More, Jahanara Begum, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Among people deceased in 1672, John Wilkins ranks 10. Before him are Franciscus Sylvius, Peter Stuyvesant, Al-Rashid of Morocco, Marie Thérèse of France, Hümaşah Sultan, and Adriaen van de Velde. After him are Marguerite of Lorraine, Madeleine Béjart, Anne Marie Martinozzi, Pierre Séguier, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, and Marie of the Incarnation.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Wilkins ranks 1,385 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Martin Gore (1961), Anthony Blunt (1907), Herbert Pitman (1877), and Beau Brummell (1778). After him are Charles Rolls (1877), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Ed Miliband (1969), Piers Courage (1942), Emily Watson (1967), and Victor McLaglen (1886).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Wilkins ranks 29. Before him are John Horton Conway (1937), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), George Atwood (1745), Thomas Simpson (1710), and William George Horner (1786). After him are John Graunt (1620), Peter Barlow (1776), William Jones (1675), Alan Baker (1939), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), and Frank P. Ramsey (1903).

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