Alphabetical Index Index by Birth Year
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
* 1625 in Perinaldo/County of Nice
+ 1712 in Paris
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini,
was an Italian (naturalised French) mathematician, astronomer and engineer,
He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn.
His observations of the lunar surface - drawings made by Patigny from 1672 to 1678 -
lead to a Moon Map (1769) and to the realization of a large folio atlas by Cassini IV (1786).
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