# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovan-battista-nicolosi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:59:22.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovan-battista-nicolosi"
name: "Giovan Battista Nicolosi"
slug: "giovan-battista-nicolosi"
description: "Giovan Battista Nicolosi was a Sicilian priest and geographer. Nicolosi proposed a new projection for the construction of the world map in two hemispheres, known today as the Nicolosi globular projection, in which the parallels and meridians are arcs of the circle and equidistant along the equator and central meridian."
tagline: "Italian geographer, presbyter and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicolosi_-_Morghen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1610-10-07"
deathDate: "1670-01-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Giovan Battista Nicolosi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovan_Battista_Nicolosi"
    title: "Giovan Battista Nicolosi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovan_Battista_Nicolosi"
    title: "Giovan Battista Nicolosi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giovan_Battista_Nicolosi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovan_Battista_Nicolosi"
    title: "Giovan Battista Nicolosi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovan_Battista_Nicolosi"
    title: "Giovan Battista Nicolosi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3766085"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump