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ASTRONOMER

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. He was known as Cassini II. Cassini was born at the Paris Observatory. He was first admitted to Collège Mazarin after brief studies at his home observatory under his father. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Cassini has received more than 66,997 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jacques Cassini is the 60th most popular astronomer (up from 73rd in 2019), the 987th most popular biography from France (up from 1,104th in 2019) and the 5th 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 60 out of 531Before him are Varāhamihira, John Flamsteed, Pierre Méchain, Girolamo Fracastoro, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, and Martin Ryle. After him are Vera Rubin, Percival Lowell, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Sosigenes of Alexandria, Gerard Kuiper, and Riccardo Giacconi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1677, Jacques Cassini ranks 4Before him are Li Ching-Yuen, Stanisław Leszczyński, and Françoise Marie de Bourbon. After him are Stephen Hales, Johann Ludwig Bach, Pietro Grimani, Nicola Fago, Jan Santini Aichel, Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, John Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Among people deceased in 1756, Jacques Cassini ranks 2Before him is Maria Amalia of Austria. After him are Riccardo Broschi, Şehsuvar Sultan, Princess Louise of Denmark, Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Theodore of Corsica, Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Giacomo Antonio Perti, Olof Celsius, and Alivardi Khan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Cassini ranks 987 out of 6,011Before him are Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764), Madame Roland (1754), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Alexis Clairaut (1713), Horace Vernet (1789), and Alphonse Bertillon (1853). After him are Pierre Augereau (1757), Eleanor of Provence (1223), Michel Rolle (1652), Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy (1847), Theodore Beza (1519), and Jean-Pierre Léaud (1944).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jacques Cassini ranks 5Before him are Charles Messier (1730), Jérôme Lalande (1732), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), and Pierre Méchain (1744). After him are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Pierre Janssen (1824), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Bernard Lyot (1897).