Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
6 dated entries naming Giovanni Domenico Cassini, drawn from 6 separate years between 1625 CE and 1712 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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17th century
- 1625June 8 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and engineer (d. 1712)source
- 1671October 25 – Italian-born French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Iapetus, the second known moon of the planet Saturn. Christiaan Huygens had discovered the Saturnian moon Titan on March 25, 1655.source
- 1672December 23 – French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Rhea, a previously-unknown satellite of the planet Saturn. Rhea is the second-largest overall, and the third moon of Saturn to be discovered by Earth astronomers, Titan having been found by Christiaan Huygens on March 25, 1655 and Iapetus by Cassini on October 25, 1671.source
- 1675Giovanni Cassini discovers the Cassini Division in the rings of Saturn.source
- 1690Giovanni Domenico Cassini observes differential rotation within Jupiter's atmosphere.source
18th century
Named in the same entries
- Saturn (2)
- Christiaan Huygens (2)
- Jupiter (1)