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César-François Cassini de Thury

died 240 years ago

4 September 1784

César-François Cassini de Thury or Cassini III was a French geodesist who produced the first reliable maps of France.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cassini_de_Thury/