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Sosigenes of Alexandria

80 BC - 100 BC

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Sosigenes (Ancient Greek: Σωσιγένης) (fl. 1st century BC) was an Ancient Greek astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sosigenes of Alexandria has received more than 134,835 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Sosigenes of Alexandria is the 42nd most popular astronomer (up from 64th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 164th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Astronomer.

Sosigenes of Alexandria is most famous for the discovery of the precession of the equinoxes.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Sosigenes of Alexandria ranks 42 out of 644. Before him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Arthur Eddington, Fred Hoyle, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Jan Oort. After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Jérôme Lalande, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Gerard Kuiper, Ferdinand Verbiest, and Vera Rubin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 80 BC, Sosigenes of Alexandria ranks 3. Before him are Vercingetorix, and Valmiki. After him are Aenesidemus, Gnaeus Pompeius, and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. Among people deceased in 100 BC, Sosigenes of Alexandria ranks 2. Before him is Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus. After him are Wang Zhaojun, Lentulus Batiatus, Gaius Claudius Glaber, Publilius Syrus, Antipater of Sidon, Bocchus I, Tigranes III, Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, and Apollonius Molon.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Sosigenes of Alexandria ranks 125 out of 642. Before him are Cleopatra V of Egypt (-100), Ammonius Saccas (175), Alexander Helios (-40), Al-Aziz Uthman (1171), Pope Alexander I of Alexandria (250), and Sanakht (-2700). After him are Nectanebo II (-400), Dodi Fayed (1955), Arsinoe III of Egypt (-246), Arsinoe II (-316), Setnakhte (-1300), and Senusret II (-1900).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Egypt

Among astronomers born in Egypt, Sosigenes of Alexandria ranks 2. Before him are Ptolemy (100). After him are Timocharis (-320).

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