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Cassini
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Name of a family of astronomers of the 17th and 18th centuries, of Italian origin; distinguished for their observations and discoveries affecting the comets, the planets, and the moon; they settled, father and son and grandson, in Paris, and became in succession directors of the observatory of Paris, the last of whom died in 1864, after completing in 1793 a great topographical map of France begun by his father.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cassini'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/cassini.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cassini'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/cassini.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
