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...
Cartographer.
Bland arbeten.
Fluvii Albis (Elbe) nov. delin. 1628, used by Hondius & Blaeu.
Tooley.
Tjänstgjorde i svenska fortifikationskåren. '.. som 1644 gjorde upp en plan över Nyen, var livländare, bosatt i Riga, när denna stad erövrades av Gustaf II Adolf 1621. I svensk tjänst utnyttjades han först som tolk till polska, men då han studerat matematik och 'architectura militaris', fick han snart i uppdrag att göra upp planer över befästningar.'.
Kart & Bildteknik 2003:3, artikel "Från Nyen till Hiddensee. Svensk kartläggning under 1600-talet". Av Ulla Ehrensvärd.
Amiral Häggs flaggkarta. - Stockholm 1888.
von Baumgarten - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1890.