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Timocharis

320 BC - 260 BC

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Timocharis of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Τιμόχαρις or Τιμοχάρης, gen. Τιμοχάρους; c. 320–260 BC) was a Greek astronomer and philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Timocharis has received more than 61,558 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Timocharis is the 207th most popular astronomer (up from 210th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Egypt (down from 336th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Egyptian Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Timocharis ranks 207 out of 644. Before him are Seth Barnes Nicholson, John Stanley Plaskett, Margherita Hack, Mashallah ibn Athari, Cleomedes, and Tamara Smirnova. After him are Bertil Lindblad, James Ferguson, Milton L. Humason, Dominique, comte de Cassini, David Gill, and James Craig Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 320 BC, Timocharis ranks 6. Before him are Bindusara, Timon of Phlius, Lycophron, Meleager, and Asclepiades of Samos. After him are Colotes, Leonidas of Tarentum, and Craterus. Among people deceased in 260 BC, Timocharis ranks 9. Before him are Sostratus of Cnidus, Zenodotus, Timaeus, Hanno the Great, Euthydemus I, and Gaius Claudius Nero. After him are Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, Marcus Livius Salinator, Quintus Caecilius Metellus, Philochorus, Laodice I, and Hannibal Gisco.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Timocharis ranks 341 out of 642. Before him are Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi (1920), Apollonius Dyscolus (200), Abdulrahman Fawzi (1909), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), Iset (-1350), and Nasr Abu Zayd (1943). After him are Mariamne (-100), Ahmad al-Tayyeb (1946), Neferkaure (-2150), Albert Cossery (1913), Nebettawy (-1250), and Hypsicles (-190).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Egypt

Among astronomers born in Egypt, Timocharis ranks 3. Before him are Ptolemy (100), and Sosigenes of Alexandria (-80).

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