Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist , who specialised in the sunflower family ( Asteraceae ) (then known as family Compositae).
2-615: Tarchonanthinae Cass. Tarchonantheae is a tribe of plants within the Asteraceae , or sunflower family, of flowering plants . Cass. He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini , famous for completing the map of France , who had succeeded his father as the director of the Paris Observatory . He was also the great-great-grandson of famous Italian-French astronomer , Giovanni Domenico Cassini , discoverer of Jupiter 's Great Red Spot and
4-569: The Cassini division in Saturn 's rings. The genus Cassinia was named in his honour by the botanist Robert Brown . He named many flowering plants and new genera in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), many of them from North America. He published 65 papers and 11 reviews in the [Nouveau] Bulletin des Sciences of the Société Philomatique de Paris between 1812 and 1821. In 1825, Cassini placed
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