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Maria Cunitz

1610 - 1664

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Maria Cunitz or Maria Cunitia (other versions of surname include: Cunicia, Cunitzin, Kunic, Cunitiae, Kunicia, Kunicka; 1610 – 22 August 1664) was an accomplished Silesian astronomer, and the most notable female astronomer of the early modern era. She authored a book Urania propitia, in which she provided new tables, new ephemera, and a simpler working solution to Kepler's second law for determining the position of a planet on its elliptical path. The Cunitz crater on Venus is named after her. The minor planet 12624 Mariacunitia is named in her honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Cunitz is the 195th most popular astronomer (down from 178th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 451st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Maria Cunitz ranks 195 out of 644. Before her are Theodor von Oppolzer, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, George William Hill, Johann Daniel Titius, Otto Struve, and Francis Preserved Leavenworth. After her are Andrea M. Ghez, Andreas Cellarius, J. Allen Hynek, Ali Qushji, Nancy Roman, and Félix Tisserand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1610, Maria Cunitz ranks 11. Before her are David Teniers the Younger, Jacob Kettler, Ivan Sirko, Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Paul Scarron, and Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange. After her are Oboi, Jan Asselijn, Li Yu, Abraham Duquesne, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, and Jan Miense Molenaer. Among people deceased in 1664, Maria Cunitz ranks 7. Before her are Francisco de Zurbarán, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Ivan Vyhovsky, Ivan Bohun, Andreas Gryphius, and Miklós Zrínyi. After her are Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans, Henry II, Duke of Guise, William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Jan Janssonius, and Salomon de Bray.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Maria Cunitz ranks 392 out of 1,694. Before her are Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Karol Świerczewski (1897), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Casimir Pulaski (1745), Joachim Meisner (1933), and Krystian Zimerman (1956). After her are Arthur Greiser (1897), Mieszko III the Old (1126), Gustav Flatow (1875), Carl Tausig (1841), Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898), and Theodor Leschetizky (1830).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Maria Cunitz ranks 7. Before her are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Albert Marth (1828), Robert Luther (1822), and Johann Daniel Titius (1729). After her are Adalbert Krueger (1832), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Hugo von Seeliger (1849), and Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561).

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