Adriaan Metius

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Figure

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

Influence

3

Resistance

3

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Adriaan Adriaanszoon, called Adriaan Metius (9 December 1571 – 6 September 1635), was a Dutch geometer and astronomer, born in Alkmaar. The name "Metius" comes from the Dutch word meten ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" or "surveyor".

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Adriaan Metius”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: unknown painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.