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Giambattista della Porta

1535 - 1615

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Giambattista della Porta (Italian pronunciation: [dʒambatˈtista della ˈpɔrta]; 1535 – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Counter-Reformation. Giambattista della Porta spent the majority of his life on scientific endeavours. He benefited from an informal education of tutors and visits from renowned scholars. His most famous work, first published in 1558, is entitled Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giambattista della Porta is the 178th most popular mathematician (down from 159th in 2019), the 1,143rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,112th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Italian Mathematician.

Giambattista della Porta is most famous for his work on the science of optics, which he published in 1586 in his book "Magia Naturalis".

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Giambattista della Porta ranks 178 out of 1,004. Before him are Wang Chong, Jean-Pierre Serre, Vladimir Arnold, Mary Jackson, John Pell, and Felix Hausdorff. After him are Zoia Ceaușescu, Edward Norton Lorenz, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Étienne Bézout, Simplicius of Cilicia, and Édouard Lucas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1535, Giambattista della Porta ranks 8. Before him are Pope Gregory XIV, Sofonisba Anguissola, Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Federico Barocci, and Alessandro Allori. After him are Shimazu Yoshihiro, Luis de Molina, Martin Frobisher, Sayri Túpac, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and Catherine Stenbock. Among people deceased in 1615, Giambattista della Porta ranks 4. Before him are Margaret of Valois, Hans von Aachen, and Toyotomi Hideyori. After him are Sanada Yukimura, Yodo-dono, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Heo Jun, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Claudio Acquaviva, Dom Justo Takayama, and Virginia de' Medici.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giambattista della Porta ranks 1,143 out of 5,161. Before him are Frederick of Naples (1451), Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma (1524), Giacomo Matteotti (1885), Luciano Spalletti (1959), Bohemond II of Antioch (1108), and Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340). After him are Eleonora Gonzaga (1630), Amélie of Leuchtenberg (1812), Mina (1940), Salvador Luria (1912), Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850), and Johann Maria Farina (1685).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Giambattista della Porta ranks 17. Before him are Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), Lodovico Ferrari (1522), Vincenzo Viviani (1622), Aloysius Lilius (1510), Scipione del Ferro (1465), and Vito Volterra (1860). After him are Rafael Bombelli (1526), Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Giovanni Ceva (1647), Paolo Ruffini (1765), Jacopo Riccati (1676), and Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750).

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