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Johann Baptist Cysat

1585 - 1657

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Johann Baptist Cysat (Latinized as Cysatus; in French, Jean-Baptiste Cysat) (c. 1587 – March 17, 1657) was a Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer, after whom the lunar crater Cysatus is named. He was born in Lucerne, as the eighth of 14 children, to cartographer, historian and folklorist Renward Cysat (1545–1614). In 1604, Cysat joined the Jesuits and became a theology student in March 1611 in Ingolstadt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Baptist Cysat is the 554th most popular mathematician (down from 509th in 2019), the 341st most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 337th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 554 out of 1,004. Before him are Ronald Graham, Geminus, William Whiston, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Ingrid Daubechies, and Al-Nayrizi. After him are Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, Johann Samuel König, Athir al-Din al-Abhari, Samuel Eilenberg, Jean-Étienne Montucla, and Pál Turán.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1585, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 16. Before him are Zacharias Janssen, Jacques Lemercier, John Rolfe, Mary Ward, Massimo Stanzione, and Hamnet Shakespeare. After him are Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Pedro Teixeira, Sisto Badalocchio, and Squanto. Among people deceased in 1657, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 20. Before him are Laura Mancini, Robert Blake, Hayashi Razan, Jacob van Eyck, Andrew Bobola, and Dilras Banu Begum. After him are Evert van Aelst, Bartholomeus Breenbergh, and John Lilburne.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 341 out of 1,015. Before him are Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Charles Journet (1891), Saint Othmar (689), Bertrand Piccard (1958), Othmar Schoeck (1886), and Maximilian Ulysses Browne (1705). After him are Paul Sacher (1906), Samuel Schmid (1947), Henri Druey (1799), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Casimir de Candolle (1836), and Daniel Schmid (1941).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Switzerland

Among mathematicians born in Switzerland, Johann Baptist Cysat ranks 14. Before him are Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Jean-Robert Argand (1768), Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803), Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier (1750), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Nicolaus I Bernoulli (1687). After him are Jakob Hermann (1678), Ludwig Schläfli (1814), Georges de Rham (1903), Nicolas Fuss (1755), Armand Borel (1923), and Martin Hairer (1975).

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