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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, a maker of astronomical instruments and a mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jost Bürgi has received more than 95,890 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jost Bürgi is the 164th most popular mathematician (down from 139th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 6th 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 164 out of 823. Before him are Ernst Zermelo, Hermann of Reichenau, Étienne Bézout, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Mary Jackson, and Rafael Bombelli. After him are Jean Gaston Darboux, Wacław Sierpiński, Zu Chongzhi, Colin Maclaurin, Conon of Samos, and André Weil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1552, Jost Bürgi ranks 10. Before him are Vasili IV of Russia, Matteo Ricci, Seonjo of Joseon, Lavinia Fontana, Hans von Aachen, and Henri, Prince of Condé. After him are Edmund Spenser, Petrus Plancius, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Dom Justo Takayama, Marfa Sobakina, and Anna of Cleves. 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, Francis II, Duke of Lorraine, Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Infante Carlos of Spain, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine, and Ludovico Ludovisi.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jost Bürgi ranks 98 out of 876. Before him are Alfred Cortot (1877), Jakob Steiner (1796), Bernardino Luini (1475), Louis Chevrolet (1878), Gianni Infantino (1970), and Horace Bénédict de Saussure (1740). After him are Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), Nicholas of Flüe (1417), Hannes Meyer (1889), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Germain Henri Hess (1802), and Ludwig Binswanger (1881).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Jost Bürgi ranks 6. Before him are Leonhard Euler (1707), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Gabriel Cramer (1704), and Jakob Steiner (1796). After him are Paul Guldin (1577), Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), and Johann II Bernoulli (1710).

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