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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 253,249 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Nicolas Fatio de Duillier is the 377th most popular astronomer (up from 415th in 2019), the 447th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 457th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 377 out of 644. Before him are Johann III Bernoulli, Frank Watson Dyson, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Brian G. Marsden, Adrien Auzout, and Tadeáš Hájek. After him are Chushiro Hayashi, Johann von Lamont, Christoph Arnold, Margaret Geller, André Patry, and Henry E. Holt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1664, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 18. Before him are János Pálffy, Alvise Pisani, John Vanbrugh, Torii Kiyonobu I, Margherita Maria Farnese, and Marfa Apraksina.  Among people deceased in 1753, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier ranks 10. Before him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Gottfried Silbermann, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, and Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa. After him are 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 447 out of 1,015. Before him are Walter Breisky (1871), Alfred Kleiner (1849), Heinz Hermann (1958), Fritz Schär (1926), Joseph Benz (1944), and Aurèle Nicolet (1926). After him are Stan Wawrinka (1985), Fritz Honegger (1917), Bernhard Russi (1948), Pierre Aubert (1927), Fabian Cancellara (1981), and Daniel Bernhardt (1965).

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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), Paul Wild (1925), Didier Queloz (1966), and Johann III Bernoulli (1744). After him are Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Robert Emden (1862).

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