In the context of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the City of Nice has chosen to take you on a journey to the stars with a series of conferences about Nice’s astronomical heritage, organized by the Department of Historical Heritage, Language, and Culture of Nice.
– 2:30 PM: “Knowledge, Science, and Culture in the Time of Cassini”
by Jean-Baptiste Pisano, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Nice,
– 3:05 PM: “Perinaldo, Cradle of the Astronomical Heritage of the County of Nice”
by Marina Muzi, Director of the Communal Astronomical Observatory ‘G.D. Cassini’ in Perinaldo,
– 3:45 PM: “Cassini, from the County of Nice to Saturn”
by Jean-Louis Heudier, Astronomer at the Côte d’Azur Observatory,
– 4:20 PM: “Raphaël Bischoffsheim, the Patron of the Scientific and Historical Heritage of the County of Nice”
by Michèl Fulconis, Historian and Biographer,
– 4:55 PM: “From the Nice Observatory to the Côte d’Azur Observatory – A Scientific and Heritage History”
by Françoise Leguet-Tully, Astronomer at the Côte d’Azur Observatory.
The village of Perinaldo is the epicenter of astronomy in our region. The Cassini and Maraldi families are the originators of a prestigious lineage of astronomers, leading to exceptional European scientific influence. Gio Domenico Cassini was the first director of the Paris Observatory and the initiator of the first map of France. Today, Perinaldo is taking on the challenge of restoring and highlighting its astronomical heritage.
Raphaël Bischoffsheim will enlist Charles Garnier and Gustave Eiffel to create the world’s largest astronomical observatory starting in 1878. Nowadays, the Côte d’Azur Observatory is in turn a major center for scientific research.
The European Space Agency and NASA launched a joint mission in 1997 to explore Saturn. The mission probe is named after Gio Domenico Cassini, the discoverer of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons. This probe continues its observations until 2010…
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