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JACQUES DOMINIQUE CASSINI

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 459 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
JACQUES DOMINIQUE CASSINI ,
Count
  (1748-1845), son of Cesar Francois Cassini, was born at the
observatory
  of Paris on the 3oth of June 1748. He succeeded in 1784 to the directorate of the
observatory
 ; but his plans for its restoration and re-equipment were wrecked in 1793 by the animosity" of the National Assembly. His position having become intolerable, he resigned on the 6th of September, and was thrown into prison in 1794, but released after seven months. He then withdrew to Thury, where he died, aged ninety-seven, on the 18th of October 1845. He published in 1770 an account of a voyage to America in 1768, undertaken as the commissary of the
Academy
  of Sciences with a view to testing Pierre Leroy's watches at sea. A memoir in which he described the operations superintended by him in 1787 for connecting the observatories of Paris and Greenwich by longitude-determinations appeared in 1791. He visited England for the purposes of the
work
 , and saw William Herschel at Slough. He completed his father's map of France, which was published by the
Academy
  of Sciences in 1793. It served as the basis for the
Atlas
  National (179,), showing France in departments.
Count
  Cassini's Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de l'observatoire de Paris (181o) embodied portions of an extensive
work
 , the prospectus of which he had submitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1774. The volume included his 'Doges of several academicians, and the autobiography of his
great
 -grandfather, the first Cassini.
See J. F. S. Devic, Histoire de la vie et des travaux de J. D. Cassini (1851); J.
Delambre
 , Histoire de l'astronomie au XVIII' siecle, pp. 309-313; Phil. Mag. 3rd
series
 , vol. xxviii. p. 412; C.
Wolf
 , Histoire de l'observatoire de Paris (1902), p. 234 et passim. (A. M. C.)


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