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Artur Pavlovich Cassini, Marquess of Capizucchi di Bologna and Count Cassini (Russian: Артур Павлович Кассини; 27 November 1835 – 19 October 1919), [a] [3] known as Arthur Cassini, was a Russian aristocrat and lifelong diplomat who served in the Diplomatic Service of the Imperial Russian Government for 55 years during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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 ...
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).
Since 1 January 2023, geographic location is no longer required to correspond to local area codes. [1] Area code zones of metropolitan France. Area codes are issued by default with the prefix 0 by telephone carriers. The area codes are defined as the second "Z" digit in the dialing encoding pattern E Z AB PQ MCDU.
Suresnes motto inscribed on the facade of the Paul Langevin high school: “No one leaves Surenne who often does not return there.” [note 1]. The history of Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, is closely linked to its unique geographical position between the Seine and Mont Valérien, one of the highest points in the Paris conurbation.
Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacques Dominique, Comte de Cassini , famous for completing the map of France , who had succeeded his father ...
Giovanni Domenico Cassini was also the first of his family to begin work on the project of creating a topographic map of France. In addition, Cassini also created the first scientific map of the moon. [6] The Cassini space probe, launched in 1997, was named after him and became the fourth to visit Saturn and the first to orbit it.
Completed by his son Jean-Dominique, Cassini IV and published by the Académie des Sciences from 1744 to 1793, its 180 plates are known as the Cassini map. The post of director of the Paris Observatory was created for his benefit in 1771 when the establishment ceased to be a dependency of the French Academy of Sciences. [ 5 ]