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Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt

1240 - 1300

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Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (Latin), Pierre Pelerin de Maricourt (French), or Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt (fl. 1269), was a French mathematician, physicist, and writer who conducted experiments on magnetism and wrote the first extant treatise describing the properties of magnets. His work is particularly noted for containing the earliest detailed discussion of freely pivoting compass needles, a fundamental component of the dry compass soon to appear in medieval navigation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt has received more than 89,814 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt is the 71st most popular engineer (down from 66th in 2019), the 1,526th most popular biography from France (down from 1,500th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Engineer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 71 out of 389. Before him are Hans Kammler, Walter Dornberger, Paul Cornu, Jimmy Doolittle, Marcel Dassault, and Colin Chapman. After him are Su Song, Adam Czerniaków, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Mikhail Gurevich, Marcel Renault, and Józef Bem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1240, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 13. Before him are Abraham Abulafia, Magnus III of Sweden, Boetius of Dacia, Siger of Brabant, Emperor Duzong, and Pietro Cavallini. After him are Elizabeth the Cuman, Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, Konstantin Tih, Jean de Meun, Andronikos II of Trebizond, and Butigeidis. Among people deceased in 1300, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 6. Before him are Halime Hatun, Nogai Khan, Baiju, Marie de France, and Guido Cavalcanti. After him are Trần Hưng Đạo, Maria Palaiologina, Anonymus, Robert de Boron, Chaka of Bulgaria, and Liang Kai.

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In France

Among people born in France, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 1,526 out of 6,770. Before him are Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy (1360), Michel Serrault (1928), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893), Louis de Bonald (1754), Henri Delaunay (1883), and Bob Denard (1929). After him are Oenomaus (-105), Raymond of Burgundy (1070), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Charles, Duke of Mayenne (1554), Claude of France (1547), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 8. Before him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Paul Cornu (1881), and Marcel Dassault (1892). After him are Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), Henry Darcy (1803), François Laurent d'Arlandes (1742), and Alexandre Darracq (1855).

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