1724-93.
Engelsk kartförläggare, troligen son till BOWLES, JOHN. Han gav ut flera atlaser, 'Bowles's Post-chaise Companion' (1782), 'New Medium English Atlas' (1785), och samma år 'Pocket Atlas'. Hans produktion av enkla kartor var troligen omfattande.
Bland arbeten.
Bowles's Post-chaise Companion.
New Medium English Atlas.
Pocket Atlas.
Brown, s. 354. - Phillips. - Tooley.
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...
1703-1730.
Son till Johann Baptist Homann. Fortsatte faderns verksamhet, men dog redan 1730. Han testamenterade företaget till två av sina vänner under förutsättning att det skulle drivas under namnet 'Homanns Erben'. Verksamheten fortsatte under detta namn till 1848.
Allg. d. Biogr.
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Öfverås. - O. A. Mankell 1884.
