Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer.
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Quotes
[edit]- ...they make no use of tables; but only of the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of certain numbers, of which we do not presently discern the ground, nor to what these numbers refer.
- commenting about an astronomical manuscript found in Siam, in La Loubere, Simon de, A new historical relation of the Kingdom of Siam, ... 1693
- A new historical relation of the Kingdom of Siam, ... 1693 by La Loubere, Simon de.
- quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
