CANTELLI [da VIGNOLA] GIACOMO [JACOBO].
1643-1695.
Cartographer of Modena.
Cantelli är även upphovsman till 'Il Corso del Fiume Reno d'Allemagna, d alla Mosella fino al Mare...'. Karta från 1689 enligt text å kartans nedre del. (RdeT)
Bland arbeten.
Alta Lombardia 1680.
Venice and China 1682.
Brandenburg 1687.
Brunswick 1691.
France 1691.
Italy 1695.
Mercurio Geografico 1688 (with maps).
Pair of globes for the Duke of Modena.
Il Corso del Fiume Reno d'Allemagna, d alla Mosella fino al Mare...
Tooley.
1756-1820.
King Gustav III's flag captain in a battle at Svensksund. Appointed state secretary for maritime affairs, later adjutant-general for the fleets. Fell out of favour and was demoted in 1801. When commandant of Sveaborg fortress in Helsinki in 1808, he ignominiously capitulated to the Russians.
Sveriges sjökartor – A. Hedin.
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...
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
Gorée, vy över ön samt ett antal föremål. - J. V. Schley, ca 1760.
