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CESAR FRANCOIS CASSINI

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 459 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CESAR FRANCOIS CASSINI , Or CASSINI DE THURY (1714-1784), son of Jacques Cassini, was born at the
observatory
  of Paris on the ,7th of June 1714. He succeeded to his father's official employments, continued the hereditary surveying operations, and began in 1744 the construction of a
great
  topographical map of France. 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
Academy
  of Sciences. Cassini de Thury died at Thury on the 4th of September 1784. His
chief
  works are:Meridienne de l'observatoire de Paris (1744), Description geometrique de la terre (1775), and Description geometrique de la France (1784).
See C.
Wolf
 , Histoire de l'observatoire de Paris, p. 287; Max. Marie, Histoire des sciences, viii. 158; J.
Delambre
 , Histoire de l'astronomie au X VIIIM siecle, pp. 275-309; R.
Wolf
 , Geschichte der Astronomic, p. 451; J. J. de Lalande, Bibliographic astronomique.


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