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...
1804-1837.
Storskifteslantmätare, verksam i Dalarna.
Bland arbeten.
Charta öfver Aspeboda socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / afmätt åren 1806, 1807 & 1808 af dertill förordnade landtm:re ; transporterad och copierad år 1831 af A.G. Théel
Charta öfver Thorsångs socken i Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån en af landtm. C.P. Nyrén uppgord charta transporterad... af A.G. Théel
Jerna socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län och Wäster Dahlarne [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskifteskartan transporterad af A.G. Théel
Leksands socken uti Nedan Siljans fögderi af Stora Kopparbergs län [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskiftes mätningarne transporterad af A.G. T[hée]l
Äppelbo socken uti Stora Kopparbergs län och Wäster Dahlarne [Kartografiskt material] / ifrån storskiftes chartan transporterad... af A.G. Théel
Se LE ROUHE, GEORGE LOUIS.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Nordnoppa, Gnaphalium Norvegicum Gunn - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
