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Jean Dominique Cassini
Jean Dominique Cassini
De l'Acad.e Royale des Sciences Ne à Perinaldo dans la Comté de Nice, le 8 juin 1625 Mort à Paris, le 14 Septembre 1712.
[Paris,
À Paris du Odieuvre M.d. d'Estampes, quai de l'Ecole, vis-à-vis ka Samarit.e. à la belle Image CPR,
Eighteenth century].
Engraved portrait.
18165
Engraved by N. Dupuis, after painting by Baubrun, issue without imprint.
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) an Italian mathematician and astronomer, who, on taking up French citizenship, changed his name to Jean-Dominique. He discovered four of the moons and the Cassini Division in the rings of Saturn in 1675. In cartography he was the first to make successful measurements of longitude by the method suggested by Galileo, using eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter as a clock, a method used to measure France accurately for the first time. On hearing that France was considerably smaller than expected, Louis XIV joked that Cassini had taken more of his kingdom from him than he had won in all his wars.
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) an Italian mathematician and astronomer, who, on taking up French citizenship, changed his name to Jean-Dominique. He discovered four of the moons and the Cassini Division in the rings of Saturn in 1675. In cartography he was the first to make successful measurements of longitude by the method suggested by Galileo, using eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter as a clock, a method used to measure France accurately for the first time. On hearing that France was considerably smaller than expected, Louis XIV joked that Cassini had taken more of his kingdom from him than he had won in all his wars.
Oxford History of Science Museum, 13626
