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Do we have the right man?

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According to A. Baranne and F. Launay, Cassegrain : un célèbre inconnu de l'astronomie instrumentale / Cassegrain: a famous unknown of instrumental astronomy, Journal of Optics, 1997, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 158-172(15) http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?pub=infobike://iop/jopt/1997/00000028/00000004/art00004 the Cassegrain in question would be Laurent, born in the region of Chartres around 1629, died at Chaudon (Eure-et-Loir) on August 31, 1693.

The Britannica (15th edition, 1974) only lists "Cassegrain, N.". (Which doesn't match Guillaume either).

User:Cody666 introduced this tit-bit of (mis)information, but he seems to be no longer extant.

Urhixidur 03:06, 2004 Sep 26 (UTC)


Hmm, you have a point! Some quick google searches fail to resolve the issue. This page (http://http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/C/Cassegrain/1.html) claims Cassegrain's first name is not conclusively known. This page on the other hand ( http://www.centurytel.net/lphilpot/optics.html) is one of many claiming Guillame as inventor. Your Journal of Optics source looks fairly conclusive, however. I personally think we should go with that. Perhaps a sentence pointing out the mysterious nature of this man, and a link to the paper (or at least a full reference) would be helpful to reverse the trend of misinformation!

Ire and curses 04:48, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)


It seems we have two items here, the person the the telescope design. Can we split them please? There should be a disabiguation page rather than a redirect.

Thanks!

Jeff Albro


I agree that 'Cassegrain' and 'Cassegrain telescope' should be split into seperate pages. However, I am not sure that there is any need for a disambiguation page here. A search for Cassegrain should return the person, and if the telescope was what was wanted, then it is easy to click on a link from the Cassegrain biography. A search for 'Cassegrain telescope' will also return the correct page.

Wikipedia disambiguation guidelines say - "Do not disambiguate, or add a link to a disambiguation page, if there is no risk of confusion" - I believe the two articles are sufficiently related that there is no risk of confusion.

I won't implement any changes until another user expresses support for this view (I'm new here, and may not be interpreting this correctly).

Ire and curses 20:13, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I just split the part on the person and the telescope into two separate articles, and also made Cassegrain a disambiguation page. andy 1 July 2005 19:38 (UTC)

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Cassegrain crater is listed as being named after Giovanni Cassegrain. I wanted to confirm that this actually correct. --Polylerus 19:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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