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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

1688 - 1768

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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf nikɔla dəlil]; 4 April 1688 – 11 September 1768) was a French astronomer and cartographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph-Nicolas Delisle has received more than 51,948 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Joseph-Nicolas Delisle is the 146th most popular astronomer (down from 142nd in 2019), the 1,832nd most popular biography from France (up from 1,882nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 146 out of 644. Before him are Henry Draper, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, August Kopff, Johann Daniel Titius, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. After him are Mariam al-Asturlabi, George Biddell Airy, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, and Guillaume Bigourdan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1688, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 14. Before him are Alexander Pope, James Francis Edward Stuart, Giuseppe Castiglione, Pierre de Marivaux, Stede Bonnet, and Domenico Zipoli. After him are Antonio Corradini, François Lemoyne, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Johann Friedrich Fasch. Among people deceased in 1768, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 7. Before him are Marie Leszczyńska, Canaletto, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Laurence Sterne, Nicola Porpora, and Georg Brandt. After him are Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and François de Cuvilliés.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 1,832 out of 6,770. Before him are Georg Muffat (1653), Jean-François Marmontel (1723), Anselme Payen (1795), Vincent of Lérins (400), Philippe de Broca (1933), and Jean-Luc Dehaene (1940). After him are Charlotte Bonaparte (1802), Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508), Christian Boltanski (1944), Elias, Duke of Parma (1880), Pierre Soulages (1919), and Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (1524).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 12. Before him are Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Jean Picard (1620), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), and Auguste Charlois (1864). After him are Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723), Jean Chacornac (1823), Bernard Lyot (1897), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), and Benjamin Baillaud (1848).

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