Engelsk kartograf i början av 1800-talet. Medarbetare vid C.V. Lavoisnes 'A new genealogical, historical and chronological atlas' 1807. Den första utgåvan innehöll bara historiska tabeller men i senare engelska och amerikanska utgåvor bifogades kartor av Gros.
Bland arbeten.
A new genealogical, historical and chronological atlas.
Phillips.
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...
Född 1822 8/3 i Schweinfurt (Bayem), död 1894 3/1 i Stockholm (Tyska förs.).
Gravör. Anlände till Stockholm 1858 4/11 med pass från Berlin. Anställdes s. å. som gravör å topografiska avdelningen vid Generalstabens litografiska anstalt. Blev 1879 26/9 svensk medborgare. Erhöll 1891 avsked med en årlig pension av 1,500 kronor från riksdagen.
Bland arbeten.
Karta, detalj, 1865.
Hultmark, 1944.
Vägvisare för XI Olympiaden i Berlin - 1936
'Hanko - Jussarö.' - Finland 1940.
