Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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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 Savoyar
Portrait of Cassini, 17th century
The pinhole-projected image of the Sun on the floor at Florence Cathedral. Cassini measured a similar image over a year at San Petronio Basilica to try to prove the Earth orbited the Sun.
Portrait of Cassini (no later than 1667)
Raccolta di varie scritture (1682)
Sidera Lodoicea
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Sidera Lodoicea is the name given by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini to the four moons of Saturn discovered by him in the years 1671, 1672, and 1684 and published in his Découverte de deux no
Cassini
Iapetus
Rhea
Tethys