. On this day in 1714 – June 17th – French astronomer and cartographer Caesar-François Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont in northern France.
He was the grandson of Jean Dominique Cassini - after whom the Cassini mission to Saturn was named - and the third Cassini to be the director of the Paris Observatory.
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