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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Nicolaus Copernicus	7,369
2	Gregor Mendel	4,344
3	Georges Lemaître	1,799
4	Giordano Bruno	1,630
5	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	932
6	Roger Bacon	842
7	William of Ockham	727
8	Albertus Magnus	678
9	Matteo Ricci	646
10	Luca Pacioli	451
11	Martin Waldseemüller	373
12	Athanasius Kircher	354
13	Ruđer Bošković	305
14	Nicolas Steno	292
15	Nicholas of Cusa	277
16	Ferdinand Verbiest	274
17	Joseph Tiefenthaler	269
18	Pontifical Academy of Sciences	262
19	Pierre André Latreille	255
20	Pope Sylvester II	220
21	Lazzaro Spallanzani	216
22	Robert Grosseteste	202
23	Luigi Guido Grandi	184
24	Nicole Oresme	182
25	Marin Mersenne	179
26	Pierre Gassendi	160
27	Ányos Jedlik	137
28	Jean Buridan	131
29	Bernard Bolzano	128
30	Giuseppe Piazzi	126
31	George Coyne	126
32	Sebastian Kneipp	121
33	Guy Consolmagno	112
34	Gabriele Falloppio	111
35	Bonaventura Cavalieri	86
36	Bartolomeu de Gusmão	74
37	Christopher Clavius	70
38	Christoph Scheiner	65
39	Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri	65
40	Francesco Maria Grimaldi	61
41	Giovanni Battista Riccioli	60
42	Charles-Michel de l'Épée	59
43	Michał Heller	59
44	Adelir Antonio de Carli	58
45	José de Acosta	55
46	Jean Picard	55
47	Stanley Jaki	55
48	José Celestino Mutis	55
49	Johannes de Sacrobosco	48
50	Thomas Bradwardine	46
51	Thomas Linacre	45
52	Giuseppe Mercalli	45
53	José Gabriel Funes	44
54	Benedetto Castelli	43
55	Henri Breuil	43
56	Jean-Antoine Nollet	42
57	Jozef Murgaš	41
58	Witelo	40
59	Christian Mayer (astronomer)	39
60	Michał Boym	39
61	Julian Tenison Woods	37
62	Armand David	36
63	Antonio José Cavanilles	35
64	Francesco Lana de Terzi	35
65	Francesco Faà di Bruno	34
66	Ignazio Danti	34
67	Angelo Secchi	33
68	René Just Haüy	32
69	Albert of Saxony (philosopher)	31
70	Theodoric of Freiberg	30
71	Václav Prokop Diviš	29
72	Joseph Bayma	29
73	Joachim Bouvet	28
74	Johann Dzierzon	28
75	Basil Valentine	26
76	Nicholas Callan	25
77	Eugenio Barsanti	25
78	François d'Aguilon	24
79	Joseph Maréchal	24
80	Gabriel Mouton	23
81	Paolo Casati	23
82	José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez	23
83	Jean-Charles de la Faille	22
84	Gaspar Schott	22
85	Julius Nieuwland	22
86	Juan Ignacio Molina	21
87	Jan Brożek	21
88	Johannes Ruysch	21
89	Georg Joseph Kamel	21
90	Maciej Miechowita	21
91	Laurent Cassegrain	20
92	Maximilian Hell	20
93	Louis-Ovide Brunet	20
94	Charles Plumier	20
95	Berthold Schwarz	19
96	Francesco Zantedeschi	19
97	Pietro Mengoli	19
98	Niccolò Zucchi	18
99	Agostino Gemelli	18
100	Antonio Neri	17
101	Honoré Fabri	17
102	François Jacquier	16
103	Barnaba Oriani	15
104	Giuseppe Zamboni	15
105	Manuel Magri	15
106	Marie-Victorin	15
107	Tommaso Ceva	14
108	Johann Baptist Cysat	14
109	Eugene Lafont	14
110	Ignacije Szentmartony	12
111	George Schoener	12
112	Franz Paula von Schrank	12
113	Paul McNally	12
114	Mario Bettinus	12
115	Giuseppe Biancani	12
116	Jean Baptiste François Pitra	12
117	Valentin Stansel	12
118	Franz von Paula Hladnik	12
119	Alexius Sylvius Polonus	11
120	Giovanni Antonelli	11
121	Victor-Alphonse Huard	11
122	François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno	11
123	Franz Xaver Kugler	10
124	Giuseppe Asclepi	10
125	Alexandre Guy Pingré	10
126	Vincenzo Riccati	10
127	Paul Guldin	9
128	Antoine de Laloubère	9
129	Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt	9
130	Gerolamo Sersale	9
131	Maximus von Imhof	9
132	José Torrubia	9
133	Otto Kippes	9
134	George Mary Searle	8
135	Johan Stein	8
136	Jacques de Billy	8
137	Christoph Grienberger	8
138	Franz de Paula Triesnecker	8
139	Paul of Middelburg	8
140	Joseph Galien	8
141	Francesco Denza	8
142	Theodor Wulf	7
143	Francesco de Vico	7
144	Daniello Bartoli	7
145	James Cullen (mathematician)	7
146	James Curley (astronomer)	7
147	Pierre Marie Heude	7
148	Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer	7
149	Bartholomeus Amicus	7
150	Włodzimierz Sedlak	7
151	Alessandro Serpieri	7
152	Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli	7
153	Ignace-Gaston Pardies	7
154	Charles Malapert	6
155	Jean Baptiste Carnoy	6
156	Pierre Macq	6
157	Marcin of Urzędów	6
158	James B. Macelwane	6
159	Nicholas Halma	6
160	Marian Wolfgang Koller	6
161	Giambattista Pianciani	6
162	Giuseppe Toaldo	6
163	Jan Krzysztof Kluk	6
164	Hugo Obermaier	6
165	Louis Receveur	6
166	André Tacquet	less than 5 views
167	Paolo Boccone	less than 5 views
168	Placidus Fixlmillner	less than 5 views
169	Christopher Borrus	less than 5 views
170	Emmanuel Maignan	less than 5 views
171	Théodore Moret	less than 5 views
172	Giovanni Battista Zupi	less than 5 views
173	Giovanni Inghirami	less than 5 views
174	Albert Curtz	less than 5 views
175	Jesuit scientists	less than 5 views
176	Louis Rendu	less than 5 views
177	José María Algué	less than 5 views
178	Gyula Fényi	less than 5 views
179	Franz Reinzer	less than 5 views
180	Johann Georg Hagen	less than 5 views
181	Giacopo Belgrado	less than 5 views
182	Léon Abel Provancher	less than 5 views
183	Nicolò Arrighetti	less than 5 views
184	Lorenz Hengler	less than 5 views
185	Benedict Sestini	less than 5 views
186	Andrew Gordon (Benedictine)	less than 5 views

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