Född o. 1660, död 1696, begr. 18/9 i Stockholm (Hedv. El).
Kopparstickare och koppartryckare. Verksam som gravör i Uppsala under slutet av 1680-talet och från 1690 i Stockholm. Fortsatte i början av 1690-talet sin utbildning för Willem Swidde och blev dennes medhjälpare i arbetet på Sueciaverket enligt kontrakt av 1693 12/12. Köpte s. å. en tryckpress för 61 dk smt.
Bland arbeten.
J. HADORPH, Biärköa rätten, Sthlm 1687: karta över Björkö.
Hultmark, 1944.
Se HOLM, THOMAS CAMPANIUS.
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...
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Kanelros, Rosa cinnamomea - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
