Jean Dominique Cassini ( 1625 - 1712 )

Birth: Perinaldo, Imperia, Italy (08 June 1625) Death: Paris, France (14 September 1712) Profession: Engineer Research Field: Astronomy; Geodesy; Hydraulics Education: School at Vallebonne; Jesuit College at Genoa; Abbey of San Fructuoso; Pupil of Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi Career: Worked in the Observatory of the Marchese Cornelio Malvasia at Panzano, near Bologna (1648); Professor of Astronomy at Bologna (1650); reconstructed the meridian at the church of San Petronio, Bologna (1653); Secretary to the Genoese Embassy to Louis XIV; Superintendent of the Waters of Bologna and the Papal States; Superintendent of Fortifications at Urbino; brought to France by Colbert to be the first Manager of the Observatoire in Paris (1669-1710); went to Cayenne to observe the parallax of Mars (1672); naturalised French (1673); travelled to Italy, where he revisited the meridian of San Petronio (1695) Memberships: Academie Royale des Sciences (1669) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 22/05/1672 Proposers: Henry Oldenburg.