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Nicolas Fatio de Duillier

1664 - 1753

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Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (also spelled Faccio or Facio; 16 February 1664 – 10 May 1753) was a mathematician, natural philosopher, astronomer, inventor, and religious campaigner. Born in Basel, Switzerland, Fatio mostly grew up in the then-independent Republic of Geneva, of which he was a citizen, before spending much of his adult life in England and Holland. Fatio is known for his collaboration with Giovanni Domenico Cassini on the correct explanation of the astronomical phenomenon of zodiacal light, for inventing the "push" or "shadow" theory of gravitation, for his close association with both Christiaan Huygens and Isaac Newton, and for his role in the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Fatio de Duillier has received more than 239,864 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nicolas Fatio de Duillier is the 415th most popular astronomer (up from 418th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 424th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 415 out of 531. Before him are Stéphane Javelle, Vincenzo Cerulli, Albrecht Unsöld, John Pond, Willem Jacob Luyten, and Elizabeth Roemer. After him are Alenush Terian, Joel Stebbins, Herbert Hall Turner, Benjamin Jekhowsky, William Wilson Morgan, and Audouin Dollfus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1664, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 17. Before him are Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, János Pálffy, Alvise Pisani, John Vanbrugh, Margherita Maria Farnese, and Torii Kiyonobu I.  Among people deceased in 1753, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 11. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Gottfried Silbermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Johann Nicolaus Bach, and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 459 out of 876. Before him are Roger Bocquet (1921), Alexander Agassiz (1835), Stan Wawrinka (1985), Urs Bühler (1971), Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), and Ernst Brenner (1856). After him are Numa Droz (1844), Bernard Challandes (1951), Konrad Stäheli (1931), Martin Suter (1948), Viola Amherd (1962), and Othmar Ammann (1879).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 7. Before him are Michel Mayor (1942), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Rudolf Wolf (1816), Didier Queloz (1966), Paul Wild (1925), and Johann III Bernoulli (1744). After him are Robert Julius Trumpler (1886) and Robert Emden (1862).

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