International Congress

Registration is now open! 

Please visit the web-page of the conference:
https://indico.ict.inaf.it/e/Cassini2025

"Giovanni Domenico Cassini, European astronomer of the 17th century on the fourth centenary of his birth"
Sala Ulisse dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, via Zamboni 31, Bologna (Italy)

Topics for discussion will include:

• Cassini and his era: society and scientists,
• From the Republic of Letters to the European scientific network of Academies,
• Cassini's cosmos: visions of the Solar System from the 17th century to today,
• Observations of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
• Cassini, Halley and the comets,
• Cassini and the telescopes of the 17th century,
• Cassini between heaven and earth: the Pope's engineer and the King's cartographer,
• Cassini in Bologna: the ephemerides and the great meridian line in San Petronio,
• Cassini at the court of Louis XIV

For further inquiries: cassini400@inaf.it