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Jacques Cassini

1677 - 1756

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Cassini has received more than 74,037 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jacques Cassini is the 71st most popular astronomer (down from 60th in 2019), the 999th most popular biography from France (down from 984th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Astronomer.

Jacques Cassini is most famous for his contributions to astronomy. He was the first to measure the distance from Earth to the Sun with a telescope, and he was the first to measure the rotation of Mars.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jacques Cassini ranks 71 out of 644. Before him are Albert Marth, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Arthur B. McDonald, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, and John Flamsteed. After him are Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Antonio Abetti, James Bradley, Walter Baade, Fritz Zwicky, and Stephen Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1677, Jacques Cassini ranks 4. Before him are Stanisław Leszczyński, Li Ching-Yuen, and Françoise Marie de Bourbon. After him are Stephen Hales, Johann Ludwig Bach, Pietro Grimani, Nicola Fago, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Jan Santini Aichel, Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, and Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Among people deceased in 1756, Jacques Cassini ranks 1. After him are Maria Amalia of Austria, Riccardo Broschi, Şehsuvar Sultan, Theodore of Corsica, Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Princess Louise of Denmark, Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, Giacomo Antonio Perti, Olof Celsius, and Alivardi Khan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Cassini ranks 999 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Charles Nodier (1780), Jean Casimir-Perier (1847), Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802), Michèle Morgan (1920), and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (1763). After him are Jacques Hadamard (1865), Jean Moulin (1899), Georges Brassens (1921), René Girard (1923), Pauline Viardot (1821), and Leonard of Noblac (496).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jacques Cassini ranks 6. Before him are Charles Messier (1730), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Jérôme Lalande (1732), Pierre Janssen (1824), and Pierre Méchain (1744). After him are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Jean Picard (1620), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Auguste Charlois (1864), and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688).

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