Cassini, César-François [Cassini de Thury, known as Cassini III] (1714-84)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5389. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Second son of JACQUES CASSINI, born in Thury, Oise, France. Director of the Paris Observatory (1771), where he concentrated on geodesy and made the first modern map of France which, for navigational purposes, would accurately place the French ports relative to Paris. To everyone's surprise, France was some 20% smaller than previously believed, and the King commented that France had lost more terri...

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