Cassini was born in Perinaldo, Italy, near Nice, France. He studied with the Jesuit priests and astronomers Giovanni Riccioli (1598-1671) and Francesco Grimaldi (1618-1663) before becoming an astronomy professor at the University of Bologna at the age...

1625-1712 Italian-French Astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini made the first accurate determination of the dimensions of the solar system. A gifted observationalist, he was an extremely conservative theorist, refusing to accept Nicolaus...

Italian Astronomer 1625-1712 Born in Perinaldo, Italy, Giovanni* Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) was an astronomer best known for his discoveries connected with the planet Saturn. At the age of twenty-five, Cassini was named chair of astronomy at the...

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625–September 14, 1712) was an Italian astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini, also known as Giandomenico Cassini, was born in Perinaldo, near Sanremo, at that time in the Republic of Genoa. Cassini was...