References for Dominique Cassini

  1. R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [available on the Web]

Books:

  1. K Alder, The measure of all things (London, 2002).
  2. N Nielsen, in Géomètres français sous la Révolution (Copenhagen, 1929), 54-57.
  3. M Prévost, Jean-Dominique Cassini, in Dictionnaire de biographie française VII (Paris, 1956), cols. 1331-1332.

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