# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-domenico-cassini
# Generated: 2026-09-07T23:33:30.797Z

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description: "He found four moons circling Saturn and spotted the gap in its rings that still carries his name — a 17th-century astronomer whose eye sharpened what humans knew about the solar system's second-largest planet."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in June 1625 in Perinaldo, then part of the Savoyard state near what is now the Italian-French border, Cassini worked as a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and engineer. He discovered four satellites of Saturn and observed the division in its rings, a feature later named the Cassini Division. Beyond the planets, he produced the first scientific map of the Moon and launched his family's multi-generational effort to create a topographic map of France. He died in Paris on 14 September 1712. Nearly three centuries later, the Cassini space probe — launched in 1997 — carried his name to Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the ringed world.