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Pierre Charles Le Monnier

1715 - 1799

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Pierre Charles Le Monnier (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ ʃaʁl lə mɔnje]; 23 November 1715 – 3 April 1799) was a French astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Charles Le Monnier has received more than 28,655 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Pierre Charles Le Monnier is the 261st most popular astronomer (up from 262nd in 2019), the 3,121st most popular biography from France (down from 2,996th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Pierre Charles Le Monnier ranks 261 out of 531Before him are Andrew Graham, Niccolò Zucchi, George Mary Searle, Theodor von Oppolzer, Klim Churyumov, and Bengt Strömgren. After him are Sylvain Arend, David Gill, Franz Xaver von Zach, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Charles T. Kowal, and Antonia Maury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Pierre Charles Le Monnier ranks 13Before him are Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, William Watson, Dorothea Erxleben, Charles, Prince of Soubise, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. After him are Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Jean-Étienne Guettard, and Pedro Antonio de Cevallos. Among people deceased in 1799, Pierre Charles Le Monnier ranks 25Before him are Jean-François Marmontel, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Patrick Henry, Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Claude Balbastre, and Marcus Elieser Bloch. After him are William Curtis, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Johann Hedwig, Giuseppe Parini, Francesco Mario Pagano, and Jean-Étienne Montucla.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Charles Le Monnier ranks 3,121 out of 6,011Before him are Marie I, Countess of Boulogne (1136), Roberto Alagna (1963), Claude Le Jeune (1528), Henri Tomasi (1901), Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), and Michel Chevalier (1806). After him are Catherine Breillat (1948), Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (1715), Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724), Charles-Louis Havas (1783), Michel Ocelot (1943), and Mathieu Valbuena (1984).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Pierre Charles Le Monnier ranks 24Before him are Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Jean Fernel (1497), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Alexis Bouvard (1767), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), and Rudolph Minkowski (1895). After him are Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Charles Wolf (1827), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), and Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853).