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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer.
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...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
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