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César-François Cassini de Thury

César-François Cassini de Thury
César-François Cassini de Thury, miniature watercolor on ivory by Jean-Marc NattierBorn June 17, 1714
Thury-sous-Clermont, (Oise) Died September 4, 1784
Paris
Nationality FrenchFields astronomyInstitutions Paris observatoryKnown for topographicalmap of France

César-François Cassini de Thury, called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer. He was born in Thury-sous-Clermont, (Oise), on June 17, 1714 and died of smallpox in Paris on September 4, 1784,

Biography

Cassini de Thury was the second son of Jacques Cassini and Suzanne Françoise Charpentier de Charmois. He was grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and would become the father of Jean-Dominique Cassini, Conte de Cassini.

In 1735, he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences as a supernumerary adjunct astronomer, in 1741 as an adjunct astronomer and in 1745 as a full member astronomer.

He succeeded to his father’s official employments in 1756 and continued the hereditary surveying operations. In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map of France, one of the landmarks in the history of cartography.

The post of director of the Paris observatory was created for his benefit in 1771 when the establishment ceased to be a dependency of the French Academy of Sciences.

His chief works are: La méridienne de l’Observatoire Royal de Paris (1744), Description géometrique de la terre (1775), and Description géometrique de la France (1784), which was completed by his son.

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Categories: 1714 births | 1784 deaths | People from Paris | French astronomers | 18th century astronomers | Members of the French Academy of Sciences | Foreign Members of the Royal Society

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