Jean Dominique Cassini
By DUPUIS, N.; after BAUBRUN , 1808
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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.

Art & Architecture
  • 作者: DUPUIS, N.; after BAUBRUN
  • 出版地: [Paris,
  • 出版商: À Paris du Odieuvre M.d. d'Estampes, quai de l'Ecole, vis-à-vis ka Samarit.e. à la belle Image CPR,
  • 发布日期: Eighteenth century].
  • 物理描述: Engraved portrait.
  • 方面: 150 by 110mm (6 by 4.25 inches).
  • 库存参考: 18165

笔记

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.

参考书目

  1. Oxford History of Science Museum, 13626
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