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  1. Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) mathematician, astronomer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state.

  2. Sep 28, 2017 · Astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered four of Saturn's moons, determined the distance from Earth to Mars and made successful measurements of longitude.

  3. Giovanni Cassini was a 17th century Italian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, most famous for discovering four satellites of the planet Saturn. He was also the first person to discover the division of the rings of Saturn, which later came to be known as the Cassini Division.

  4. Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini, (June 8, 1625 – September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer, and mathematician who was the first to observe four of Saturn's moons.

  5. Sep 14, 2012 · Giovanni Cassini (Cassini I) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer who studied the curve which is the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed foci is constant.

  6. May 17, 2018 · Born in Perinaldo, Italy, Giovanni * Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) was an astronomer best known for his discoveries connected with the planet Saturn. At the age of twenty-five, Cassini was named chair of astronomy at the University of Bologna and held that position for nineteen years.

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  8. Apr 27, 2017 · Giovanni Domenico Cassini was the first director of the observatory founded by Louis XIV and, among much else, he discovered two of Saturn’s moons, the planet’s equatorial belt and...

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