Cassini de Thury, César-François
17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784
César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.
Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont (Oise), the second son of Jacques Cassini and Suzanne Françoise Charpentier de Charmois. He was a grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and would become the father of Jean-Dominique Cassini, Comte 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.
In January, 1751 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He succeeded to his father’s official position 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. Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates ar...
PONTOPPIDAN, CHRISTIAN JOCHUM.
1739-1807. Född i Lille Naestved, död på Lolland.
Dansk kartograf. 18 år gammal avbröt han sin skolgång och gick i utländsk krigstjänst. Vid hemkomsten 1773 fick han anställning som lärare i teckning vid den kungliga 'Landkadetkorps'. 1800 tog han avsked. Hans första kartarbete, som omfattade hela Skandinavien och delar av Ryssland, kom ut 1781. Som tillägg till sina olika kartor utarbetade han textband med 'Geographiske Oplysninger'. Hans kartor räknas till den tidens främsta och mest omfattande.
Bland arbeten.
Geographiske Oplysninger.
Bricka. - Ehrencron.
Nämnd som 'Cosmographer and Navigator in le Havre' (1613). Utförde bl.a. en karta över Atlantiska Oceanen.
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Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'Karta öfver Stockholms Skärgård med tilgränsande del af Östersjön samt Ålandshaf' - G. af Klint 1830.
