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Tobias Mayer

1723 - 1762

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Tobias Mayer (17 February 1723 – 20 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon. He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in poor circumstances. A self-taught mathematician, he earned a living by teaching mathematics while still a youth. He had already published two original geometrical works when, in 1746, he entered J. B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tobias Mayer has received more than 63,758 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Tobias Mayer is the 174th most popular astronomer (down from 158th in 2019), the 2,073rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,957th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Tobias Mayer ranks 174 out of 644. Before him are Luboš Kohoutek, Hubert Reeves, Michael H. Hart, J. Allen Hynek, Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, and Otto Wilhelm von Struve. After him are Gan De, Peter van de Kamp, Oskar Backlund, Maria Cunitz, Margaret Burbidge, and Jacobus Kapteyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Tobias Mayer ranks 16. Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, and Mir Taqi Mir. After him are Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Antoine Louis, Pehr Osbeck, William Blackstone, and Marcus Elieser Bloch. Among people deceased in 1762, Tobias Mayer ranks 14. Before him are Emperor Momozono, Francesco Geminiani, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, and Jean Calas. After him are Françoise-Louise de Warens, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, Dorothea Erxleben, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Stanisław Poniatowski, and Francesco Manfredini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Tobias Mayer ranks 2,073 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Adam (1877), Otto Dietrich (1897), Peter Lely (1618), Loriot (1923), Johann Homann (1664), and Lotte Reiniger (1899). After him are Bruno Loerzer (1891), Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1785), Judith of Swabia (1054), Princess Isabella of Bavaria (1863), Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752), and Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1588).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Tobias Mayer ranks 31. Before him are Arthur Auwers (1838), Hermann Carl Vogel (1841), Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670), Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921), August Kopff (1882), and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870). After him are Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745), Andreas Cellarius (1596), Martin Schwarzschild (1912), Erasmus Reinhold (1511), Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794), and Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780).

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