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Oronce Finé

1494 - 1555

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Oronce Fine (or Finé; Latin: Orontius Finnaeus or Finaeus; Italian: Oronzio Fineo; 20 December 1494 – 8 August 1555) was a French mathematician, cartographer, editor and book illustrator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oronce Finé has received more than 107,897 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Oronce Finé is the 312th most popular mathematician (down from 281st in 2019), the 2,254th most popular biography from France (down from 1,957th in 2019) and the 55th most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Oronce Finé ranks 312 out of 823Before him are John Edensor Littlewood, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Georg Alexander Pick, Paul Cohen, Giambattista Benedetti, and Lev Pontryagin. After him are Edmund Landau, Shing-Tung Yau, Kiyosi Itô, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, and Frank P. Ramsey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Oronce Finé ranks 17Before him are William Tyndale, Rosso Fiorentino, Hans Sachs, Antonio de Mendoza, Saitō Dōsan, and Antoinette de Bourbon. After him are Johannes Agricola, Ambrosius Holbein, Domingo de Soto, Christina Gyllenstierna, Hans Tausen, and Pierre Attaingnant. Among people deceased in 1555, Oronce Finé ranks 10Before him are Georgius Agricola, Kara Ahmed Pasha, Henry II of Navarre, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Pedro Mascarenhas, and Thomas of Villanova. After him are Herri met de Bles, Heinrich Aldegrever, Agnes of Hesse, Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg, Luís of Portugal, Duke of Beja, and Gemma Frisius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Oronce Finé ranks 2,254 out of 6,011Before him are Louis Jouvet (1887), Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), Quatremère de Quincy (1755), Albert Sarraut (1872), Jules Breton (1827), and Louis Trousselier (1881). After him are Alexandre Astruc (1923), Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784), Bruno Metsu (1954), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Maximilien Luce (1858), and Thomas Piketty (1971).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Oronce Finé ranks 55Before him are Michel Chasles (1793), Pierre Varignon (1654), Antoine Gombaud (1607), René-Louis Baire (1874), Joseph Bertrand (1822), and Guillaume Postel (1510). After him are Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), Jean Dieudonné (1906), Paul Lévy (1886), and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735).