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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)1625 to 1712

Wikidata names Francesco Maria Grimaldi and Giovanni Battista Riccioli as doctoral advisors and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Honoré Fabri

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 6 people: 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.