What is Giovanni Domenico Cassini?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Giovanni Domenico Cassini | image = Giovanni Cassini.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1625|6|8}} | birth_place = [[Perinaldo]], [[Republic of Genova]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1712|9|14|1625|6|8}} | death_place = Paris, France | nationality = Italian, French | field = [[Mathematics]], [[astrology]] [[astronomy]], engineering | work_institution = [[University of Bologna]] | alma_mater = The Jesuit College at Genoa | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Cassini Division]]<br>[[Cassini identity]]<br>[[Cassini's laws]]<br>[[Cassini oval]]<br>First to observe the division in the rings of Saturn | prizes = | footnotes = }} '''Giovanni Domenico Cassini''', also known as ''Jean-Dominique Cassini'', (June 8, 1625 – September 14, 1712) was an [[Italy|Italian]]-[[France|French]] [[astronomer]], [[engineer]] and [[astrologer]]. Cassini was born in [[Perinaldo]] in the [[Republic of Genoa]] (part of [[Italy]]). == Discoveries == Cassini, along with [[Robert Hooke]] discovered the [[Great Red Spot]] on [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] in around 1665. He also discovered the four of [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]]'s [[Satellite (natural)|moons]], as well as the Cassini Division in [[rings of Saturn|Saturn's rings]]. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cassini, Giovanni Domenico}} [[Category:1625 births]] [[Category:1712 deaths]] [[Category:Astrologers]] [[Category:French astronomers]] [[Category:French engineers]] [[Category:French esotericists]] [[Category:Italian astronomers]] [[Category:Italian esotericists]]