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Jean Picard

1620 - 1682

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Jean Picard (21 July 1620 – 12 July 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He is principally notable for his accurate measure of the size of the Earth, based on a careful survey of one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Picard is the 178th most popular astronomer (down from 106th in 2019), the 1,865th most popular biography from France (down from 1,440th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean Picard ranks 178 out of 644. Before him are James Craig Watson, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Robert Grant Aitken, Franz Xaver von Zach, Guillaume Bigourdan, and Nikolai Chernykh. After him are Henry Draper, Seleucus of Seleucia, Adriaan Blaauw, Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, and Gan De.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Jean Picard ranks 7. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Edme Mariotte, Ninon de l'Enclos, Aelbert Cuyp, Avvakum, and Pierre Puget. After him are Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Nicholas Mercator, John Graunt, and Isabella Leonarda. Among people deceased in 1682, Jean Picard ranks 14. Before him are Avvakum, Jacob Kettler, Baldassare Longhena, Alessandro Stradella, Thomas Browne, and Prince Rupert of the Rhine. After him are Yohannes I, Gu Yanwu, Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, and Heo Mok.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Picard ranks 1,865 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Chaban-Delmas (1915), Henri Grégoire (1750), Louis de Beaufront (1855), Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612), Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie (1718), and Charles Paul de Kock (1793). After him are Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933), Yo-Yo Ma (1955), Léon Cogniet (1794), Nicholas, Crown Prince of Montenegro (1944), Henry de Montherlant (1895), and René Char (1907).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jean Picard ranks 16. Before him are Auguste Charlois (1864), Bernard Lyot (1897), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723), and Guillaume Bigourdan (1851). After him are Félix Tisserand (1845), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), and César-François Cassini de Thury (1714).

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