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JACQUES CASSINI (1677–1756)

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CASSINI (1677–1756) , son of Domenico Cassini, was See also:born at the See also:Paris See also:observatory on the 8th of See also:February 1677. Admitted at the See also:age of seventeen to membership of the See also:French See also:Academy of Sciences, he was elected in 1696 a See also:fellow of the Royal Society of See also:London, and became maitre See also:des comptes in 1706. Having succeeded to his See also:father's position at the observatory in 1712, he measured in 1713 the arc of the See also:meridian from See also:Dunkirk to See also:Perpignan, and published the results in a See also:volume entitled De la grandeur et de la figure de la terre (1720) (see See also:GEODESY). He wrote besides Elemens d'astronomie (1740), and died on the 18th of See also:April 1756 at Thury, near Clermont. The first tables of the satellites of See also:Saturn were supplied by him in 17,6. See C. See also:Wolf, Histoire de l'observatoire de Paris; Max. See also:Marie, Histoire des sciences, vii. 214; R. Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomie, p. 451; J. C.

Houzeau, Bibl. astronomique; J. See also:

Delambre, Histoire de l'astronomie au X VII-le siecle, pp. 250-275 (unfairly depreciatory) ; J. F. See also:Montucla, Hist. des mathematiques, iv. 145, 248.

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