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Maria Cunitz

1610 - 1664

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Maria Cunitz or Maria Cunitia (other versions of surname include: Cunicia, Cunitzin, Kunic, Cunitiae, Kunicia, Kunicka; 1610 – 22 August 1664) was an accomplished Silesian astronomer, and the most notable female astronomer of the early modern era. She authored a book Urania propitia, in which she provided new tables, new ephemera, and a simpler working solution to Kepler's second law for determining the position of a planet on its elliptical path. The Cunitz crater on Venus is named after her. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Cunitz has received more than 55,312 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Maria Cunitz is the 168th most popular astronomer (up from 225th in 2019), the 437th most popular biography from Poland (up from 553rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maria Cunitz ranks 168 out of 531. Before her are Henry Draper, Cleomedes, Antonio Abetti, George William Hill, Wilhelm Beer, and Margaret Burbidge. After her are Andrea M. Ghez, Michael H. Hart, Auguste Charlois, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Gan De, and Erasmus Reinhold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, Maria Cunitz ranks 13. Before her are Ivan Sirko, Paul Scarron, Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jan Asselijn, Li Yu, and Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange. After her are Jan Miense Molenaer, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Abraham Duquesne, Albert Eckhout, Huang Zongxi, and Louise Moillon. Among people deceased in 1664, Maria Cunitz ranks 9. Before her are Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Miklós Zrínyi, Andreas Gryphius, Ivan Vyhovsky, Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, and Henry II, Duke of Guise. After her are William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Élisabeth de Bourbon, Salomon de Bray, Michiel Sweerts, Jan Janssonius, and Guru Har Krishan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Cunitz ranks 437 out of 1,454. Before her are Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Zawisza Czarny (1379), Karol Świerczewski (1897), Andrew Bobola (1591), and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874). After her are Julian Tuwim (1894), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), Fritz von Below (1853), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Stanisław Poniatowski (1676), and Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Maria Cunitz ranks 7. Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Albert Marth (1828), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), and Robert Luther (1822). After her are Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), and Hugo von Seeliger (1849).

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