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Jost Bürgi

1552 - 1632

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Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and Prague, was a Swiss clockmaker, mathematician, and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jost Bürgi has received more than 103,292 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jost Bürgi is the 174th most popular mathematician (down from 164th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 98th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

Jost Bürgi is most famous for inventing the mechanical clock.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jost Bürgi ranks 174 out of 1,004. Before him are René Thom, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Camille Jordan, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, and Marcel Grossmann. After him are Jean-Pierre Serre, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Édouard Lucas, Conon of Samos, Ernst Zermelo, and Leo Perutz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1552, Jost Bürgi ranks 9. Before him are Boris Godunov, Matteo Ricci, Vasili IV of Russia, Hans von Aachen, Lavinia Fontana, and Seonjo of Joseon. After him are Edmund Spenser, Dom Justo Takayama, Petrus Plancius, Henri, Prince of Condé, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and Pietro Cataldi. Among people deceased in 1632, Jost Bürgi ranks 8. Before him are Sigismund III Vasa, Frederick V of the Palatinate, Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Giambattista Basile, Tokugawa Hidetada, and Leopold V, Archduke of Austria. After him are Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Infante Carlos of Spain, Francis II, Duke of Lorraine, Valentin de Boulogne, and Ludovico Ludovisi.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jost Bürgi ranks 112 out of 1,015. Before him are Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Hannes Meyer (1889), Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), and Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944). After him are Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), César Ritz (1850), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Carla Del Ponte (1947), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jost Bürgi ranks 5. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), and Gabriel Cramer (1704). After him are Jakob Steiner (1796), Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750).

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