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Cassini is also credited with introducing Indian Astronomy to Europe. In 1688, the French envoy to Siam (Thailand), Simon de la Loubère, returned to Paris with an obscure manuscript relating to the astronomical traditions of that country, along with a French translation. The Siamese Manuscript, as it is now called, somehow fell into Cassini's ...
Versailles on the Cassini map. The Cassini Map or Academy's Map is the first topographic and geometric map made of the Kingdom of France as a whole. It was compiled by the Cassini family, mainly César-François Cassini (Cassini III) and his son Jean-Dominique Cassini (Cassini IV) in the 1700s. It was on a scale of one line to 100 toises, i.e ...
Cassini projection of the world Cassini projection with 1,000 km indicatrices Cassini projection of the world modeled as a highly oblate ellipsoid with flattening 1:2 (= eccentricity √ 3 ⁄ 2) The Cassini projection (also sometimes known as the Cassini–Soldner projection or Soldner projection [ 1 ] ) is a map projection first described in ...
Hand-drawn map of one side of the Valley of Vesdre by French geographers (led by the Cassini family) from 1745 to 1748. In France, the first general maps of the territory using a measuring apparatus were made by the Cassini family during the 18th century on a scale of 1:86,400 (one centimeter on the chart corresponds to approximately 864 meters on the ground).
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Meridian Room (or Cassini Room) at the Paris Observatory, 61 avenue de l'Observatoire (14th arrondissement). The Paris meridian is traced on the floor. The Paris meridian is traced on the floor. The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France – now longitude 2°20′14.02500″ East.
Dominique, comte de Cassini visited England with Pierre Méchain and Adrien-Marie Legendre, and the three met William Herschel at Slough. He completed his father's map of France, which was published by the Academy of Sciences in 1793. It served as the basis for the Atlas National (1791), showing France in departments. [1]
Jean-Dominique Cassini can refer to: Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), known in France as Jean-Dominique Cassini Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748–1845), great-grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini (also known as Cassini IV)