JACQUES See also:

• CASSINI

CASSINI (1677–1756)  , son of Domenico See also:

• CASSINI

Cassini, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory on the 8th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1677 . Admitted at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of seventeen to membership of the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences, he was elected in 1696 a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of the Royal Society of See also:

• LONDON

London, and became maitre See also:

• DES

des comptes in 1706 . Having succeeded to his See also:

• FATHER

father's position at the observatory in 1712, he measured in 1713 the arc of the See also:

• MERIDIAN
• MERIDIAN (from the Lat. meridianus, pertaining to the south or mid-day)

meridian from See also:

• DUNKIRK
• DUNKIRK (Fr. Dunkerque)

Dunkirk to See also:

• PERPIGNAN

Perpignan, and published the results in a See also:

• VOLUME

volume entitled De la grandeur et de la figure de la terre (1720) (see See also:

• GEODESY (from the Gr. y, the earth, and SatEty, to divide)

GEODESY) . He wrote besides Elemens d'astronomie (1740), and died on the 18th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1756 at Thury, near Clermont . The first tables of the satellites of See also:

• SATURN
• SATURN [SATURNUS]

Saturn were supplied by him in 17,6 . See C . See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf, Histoire de l'observatoire de Paris; Max . See also:

• MARIE

Marie, Histoire des sciences, vii . 214; R . Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomie, p . 451; J . C .

Houzeau, Bibl. astronomique; J . See also:

• DELAMBRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH (1749-1822)

Delambre, Histoire de l'astronomie au X VII-le siecle, pp . 250-275 (unfairly depreciatory) ; J . F . See also:

• MONTUCLA, JEAN ETIENNE (1725-1799)

Montucla, Hist. des mathematiques, iv . 145, 248 .