AD 1744 · 18th century · France
Carte de Cassini
Triangulation turns a kingdom into a survey.
Catalogue record
| 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.
Related essays
Bibliography
- Edney, Matthew H. Cartography: The Ideal and Its History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.