Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (died 1712)

Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (1625–1712)

Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard state. He discovered four satellites of Saturn and noted the division of its…