sentences:  Cassini intended the name to honor King Louis XIV of France, who reigned from 1643 to 1715, and who was Cassini's benefactor as patron of the Paris Observatory, of which Cassini was the director.The name was modelled on "Sidera Medicea", "Medicean stars", the Latin name used by Galileo to name the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter, in honor of the Florentine house of Medici.The following contemporary (1686) notice records Cassini's choice of name, and explains his rationale for the same