AD 1744 · 18th century · France

Carte de Cassini

César-François Cassini de Thury

Triangulation turns a kingdom into a survey.

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Cartographer César-François Cassini de Thury
Record stands for A work or series, not one witness

Open questions

Looked at and unresolved. Listed so the gap reads as a question somebody asked rather than a field nobody reached.

edition
The Carte de Cassini is a sheet series issued across the second half of the eighteenth century. No sheet is named here, so the year, the scale and any physical description belong to the undertaking rather than to anything that can be measured. Naming the sheet or sheets the essay actually uses and cataloguing those as their own records, each with its own state and holding institution.

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Bibliography

  • Edney, Matthew H. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

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