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    Jacques Cassini (18 February 1677 – 16 April 1756) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. He was known...
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  • engineer, and astrologer Jacques Cassini (1677–1756), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico Cassini César-François Cassini de Thury (1714–1784), French...
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    marriage Cassini had two sons; the younger, Jacques Cassini, succeeded him as astronomer and geodesist under the name of Cassini II." In 1711 Cassini went...
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  • and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582, as exemplified by Jacques Cassini (1740), Simon Newcomb (1898) and Fred Espenak (2007). The prefix AD...
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  • French astronomer Jacques Cassini (Cassini II), who is traditionally credited with inventing year zero. In his Tables astronomiques, Cassini labeled the year...
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    Mare Imbrium. The crater was named after astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Jacques Cassini. To the northeast is the Promontorium Agassiz, the southern tip...
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    towards the centre. Between 1684 and 1718 Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Jacques Cassini, along with Philippe de La Hire, carried a triangulation, starting...
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  • Cassini Arthur Cassini (1836–1913), Russian diplomat César-François Cassini de Thury (1714–1784), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques,...
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    the second son of Jacques Cassini and Suzanne Françoise Charpentier de Charmois. He was a grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and would become the...
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    family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini, famous for completing the map of France, who had succeeded...
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