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Born February 18, 1677 • Paris • France
Died April 15, 1756 or April 16, 1756 • France
Notable Works “De la grandeur et de la figure de la terre”
Notable Family Members father Gian Domenico Cassini • son César-François Cassini de Thury
Subjects Of Study Jupiter • Moon • Saturn
Gian Domenico Cassini.
Gian Domenico Cassini
French astronomer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
William Cranch Bond
American astronomer
Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
James Keeler
American astronomer
Seth Barnes Nicholson
American astronomer
Niccolò Zucchi
Italian astronomer
Charles Dillon Perrine
American astronomer
Jérôme Lalande, etching by Christian Fritzsch, 1773.
Jérôme Lalande
French astronomer
Delambre, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre
French astronomer
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer
Alexis Bouvard
French astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
Russian astronomer

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