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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 47,956 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Joseph-Nicolas Delisle is the 142nd most popular astronomer (down from 141st in 2019), the 1,889th most popular biography from France (down from 1,843rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 142 out of 531. Before him are John Louis Emil Dreyer, Alphonse Borrelly, Williamina Fleming, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Antonie Pannekoek, and Pierre Janssen. After him are Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, Maria Mitchell, Annie Jump Cannon, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, and Peter Andreas Hansen.

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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, Domenico Zipoli, and Stede Bonnet. After him are Antonio Corradini, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Marie Victoire de Noailles, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and François Lemoyne. Among people deceased in 1768, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 8. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Canaletto, Laurence Sterne, Nicola Porpora, Georg Brandt, and Francesco Maria Veracini. After him are Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, François de Cuvilliés, and Michel Blavet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 1,889 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre Janssen (1824), Peter the Venerable (1092), Robert de Boron (1110), Philippe de Commines (1447), Maurice Duruflé (1902), and Roland Petit (1924). After him are François Ozon (1967), Paul Durand-Ruel (1831), Charlotte Perriand (1903), Christian de Castries (1902), Marius Jacob (1879), and Antoine Baumé (1728).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle ranks 10. Before him are Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), and Pierre Janssen (1824). After him are Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Bernard Lyot (1897), Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723), Jean Chacornac (1823), Jean Picard (1620), and Auguste Charlois (1864).

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