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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 84,854 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt is the 67th most popular engineer (up from 82nd in 2019), the 1,505th most popular biography from France (up from 1,628th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 67 out of 323. Before him are Masaru Ibuka, Su Song, Viktor Bryukhanov, Hans Kammler, Leslie Groves, and Jimmy Doolittle. After him are Paul Cornu, Marcel Dassault, Ross Brawn, Henry Royce, Viktor Belenko, and Loránd Eötvös.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1240, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 14. Before him are Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, Siger of Brabant, Magnus III of Sweden, Emperor Duzong, Boetius of Dacia, and Elizabeth the Cuman. After him are Albert II, Margrave of Meissen, Konstantin Tih, Jean de Meun, John I Doukas of Thessaly, Butigeidis, and Daumantas of Pskov. Among people deceased in 1300, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 5. Before him are Nogai Khan, Marie de France, Baiju, and Guido Cavalcanti. After him are Robert de Boron, Trần Hưng Đạo, Anonymus, Liang Kai, Chaka of Bulgaria, Maria Palaiologina, and Kilij Arslan III.

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In France

Among people born in France, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 1,505 out of 6,011. Before him are John of Matha (1150), Alys of France, Countess of Vexin (1160), Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (1489), Bertrade de Montfort (1070), Maurice Bucaille (1920), and Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464). After him are Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), Patrick Depailler (1944), Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), Élie Cartan (1869), Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220), and Bernard de Tremelay (1100).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt ranks 6. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633), André Citroën (1878), and Villard de Honnecourt (1200). After him are Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), Henry Darcy (1803), and André Courrèges (1923).

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