death_date death_place work_institution birth_place religion nationality field birth_date known_for residence image article_title name alma_mater
14 september 1712 paris , france university of bologna perinaldo , republic of genova roman catholic italian , french mathematics , astrology astronomy , engineering 8 june 1625 cassini ; 1st to observe the division in the rings of division saturn , cassini 's laws , cassini oval italy , france giovanni cassini.jpg giovanni domenico cassini
 giovanni domenico cassini the jesuit college at genoa
giovanni domenico cassini

giovanni domenico cassini -lrb- 8 june 1625 -- 14 september 1712 -rrb- was an italian mathematician , astronomer , astrologer and engineer .
cassini was born in perinaldo , near imperia , at that time in the county of nice , part of the duchy of savoy .
cassini is known for his work in the fields of astronomy and engineering .
cassini most notably discovered four satellites of the planet saturn and noted the division of the rings of saturn -lrb- with the cassini division becoming named after him -rrb- .
giovanni domenico cassini was also the first of his family to begin work on the project of creating a topographic map of france .
launched in 1997 , the cassini spaceprobe was named after him and became the fourth to visit saturn and the first to orbit the planet .
