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CESAR FRANCOIS CASSINI

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CESAR

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

Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomic, p . 451; J . J. de

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Lalande, Bibliographic astronomique .

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