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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 59,170 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Maria Cunitz is the 178th most popular astronomer (down from 168th in 2019), the 451st most popular biography from Poland (down from 437th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maria Cunitz ranks 178 out of 644. Before her are Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Tobias Mayer, Gan De, Peter van de Kamp, and Oskar Backlund. After her are Margaret Burbidge, Jacobus Kapteyn, Lyudmila Chernykh, Jean Chacornac, Seleucus of Seleucia, and William Henry Pickering.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, Maria Cunitz ranks 14. Before her are Paul Scarron, Ivan Sirko, Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Oboi, Li Yu, and Jan Asselijn. After her are Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Karel Škréta, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, Abraham Duquesne, Jan Miense Molenaer, and Huang Zongxi. Among people deceased in 1664, Maria Cunitz ranks 9. Before her are Miklós Zrínyi, Andreas Gryphius, Ivan Bohun, Ivan Vyhovsky, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, and Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans. After her are Henry II, Duke of Guise, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Jan Janssonius, Salomon de Bray, Michiel Sweerts, and Guru Har Krishan.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Cunitz ranks 451 out of 1,694. Before her are Karol Świerczewski (1897), Lubomyr Husar (1933), Jacek Malczewski (1854), Gustav Freytag (1816), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), and Aleksander Krupa (1947). After her are Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874), Werner Lorenz (1891), Yitzhak Sadeh (1890), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Zygmunt Berling (1896), and Hans Jeschonnek (1899).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Maria Cunitz ranks 7. Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Robert Luther (1822), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Albert Marth (1828), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), and Johann Daniel Titius (1729). After her are Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), and Adalbert Krueger (1832).

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