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CESAR FRANCOIS CASSINI

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 459 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS See also:CASSINI , Or CASSINI DE THURY (1714-1784), son of Jacques Cassini, was See also:born at the See also:observatory of See also:Paris on the ,7th of See also:June 1714. He succeeded to his See also:father's See also:official employments, continued the hereditary See also:surveying operations, and began in 1744 the construction of a See also:great topographical See also:map of See also:France. The See also:post of director of the Paris observatory was created for his benefit in 1771, when the See also:establishment ceased to be a dependency of the See also:Academy of Sciences. Cassini de Thury died at Thury on the 4th of See also:September 1784. His See also:chief See also:works are:—Meridienne de l'observatoire de Paris (1744), Description geometrique de la terre (1775), and Description geometrique de la France (1784). See C. See also:Wolf, Histoire de l'observatoire de Paris, p. 287; Max. See also:Marie, Histoire See also:des sciences, viii. 158; J. See also:Delambre, Histoire de l'astronomie au X VIIIM siecle, pp. 275-309; R.

Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomic, p. 451; J. J. de See also:

Lalande, Bibliographic astronomique.

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