How to Pronounce Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
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Apr 17, 1709 Perinaldo, Liguria, Italy Died on 14 Nov 1788 (aged 79)
Italian astronomer
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About Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
- Giovanni Domenico (French: Jean-Dominique) Maraldi (17 April 1709 – 14 November 1788) was an Italian-born astronomer, nephew of Giacomo F.
- Maraldi.
- Born at Perinaldo, Liguria, Maraldi came to Paris in 1727 and became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1731.
- There, while observing Comet De Chéseaux with Jacques Cassini in 1746, he discovered two "nebulous stars", which later turned out to be globular clusters M15 and M2.
- Maraldi retired to Perinaldo, Italy in 1772.
- He was posthumously honored, along with his uncle, by the naming of lunar crater Maraldi in 1935.
