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40: 277: 411: 152:. His position having become intolerable, he resigned on 6 September and was thrown into prison in 1794, but released after seven months. He then withdrew to Thury, where he died in 1845. 466: 148:. He succeeded his father as director of the observatory in 1784; but his plans for its restoration and re-equipment were wrecked in 1793 by the animosity of the 415: 471: 221:(1810) embodied portions of an extensive work, the prospectus of which he had submitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1774. The volume included his 476: 318:"Concerning the Latitude and Longitude of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; With Remarks on a Memorial of the Late M. Cassini de Thury" 301: 292: 456: 461: 451: 206:. 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 379: 211: 179:
for the purpose of better determining the latitude and longitude of the latter. His proposal was accepted, resulting in the
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His wife was Claude Marie Louise de Lamyre-Mory Comtesse de Neuville (1754–1791) and their youngest son
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In 1770, he published an account of a voyage to America in 1768, undertaken as the commissary of the
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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This article is about the French astronomer. For his Italian-born great-grandfather, see
210:(1791), showing France in departments. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the 288: 145: 191: 329: 199: 233: 317: 425: 296: 283: 244: 168: 160: 114: 96: 334: 226: 172: 341: 305:. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 459. 130: 45: 248: 187: 410: 203: 125:(30 June 1748 – 18 October 1845), also called 219:
Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de l’observatoire de Paris
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Lithograph
Julien-LĂ©opold Boilly
French
Henri Cassini
astronomer
César-François Cassini de Thury
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Paris Observatory
National Assembly
French Academy of Sciences
Pierre Le Roy
César-François Cassini de Thury
Royal Society
trigonometric
Greenwich
Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790)
England
Pierre MĂ©chain
Adrien-Marie Legendre
William Herschel
Slough
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
biography of his great-grandfather
Archived
Wayback Machine
Giovanni Cassini
Henri
botanist

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