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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.
150 by 110mm (6 by 4.25 inches).
18165
notes:
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 Ju...
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 Ju...
bibliography:
Oxford History of Science Museum, 13626
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