Giovanni Cassini

High School Astronomy Project

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@michaelstaTz2 I’m older than you!

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

I’ve written books in Latin, Italian, and French! #trilingual #author

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@SirWilliamHers5 Oh no… I think you’re right!

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@michaelstaTz2 I went blind… does that count?

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

Have I mentioned that I was the first to make successful measurements of longitude? I measured the size of France. Don’t tell anyone, but the country’s smaller than first believed to be. 🤫

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@Aryabha11633192 I found you some more pies! 😉

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@sun_supremacy While you made the first calculation of the Earth-Sun distance, I made the first ACCURATE calculation!

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@mrdrewsscience Read the books long before the show came out!

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

RIP my namesake spacecraft… 😢
1997-2017

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@mrdrewsscience That did not go so well…

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

My Chart of the Moon, which I presented in 1679, remained the best available for astronomy until photography was invented.

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

I was able to use new powerful telescopes by Giuseppe Campani to make many new discoveries about Jupiter and Mars!

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

“He showed great intellectual curiosity and was especially interested in poetry, mathematics[,] and astronomy.”

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

Wish I was still alive so I could visit my hometown… make sure to visit Perinaldo next time you go to Italy!

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10th landing of this Falcon 9 first stage booster

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@mrdrewsscience 346 found!

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@johaha71 Happy late birthday!!!

[Giovanni Cassini @Cassini_InSpace]

@PerdewAmanda How dare you employ that pseudoscience in my presence!!! #astrologyisfake #scienceisreal

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@mrdrewsscience

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Throwback to my last birthday party! Remember to RSVP for June 8th!