Cassini map

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title: Cassini map
text: 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 and his son Jean-Dominique Cassini in the 1700s. It was on a scale of one line to 100 toises, i.e. 1/86,400. The map was, for the time, a real innovation and a decisive technical advance. It is the first map to be based on a geodesic triangulation. Four generations of the Cassini carried out the work, taking mor
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description: 18th century map of France made by the Cassini family
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini_map
date created: 2015-01-28T08:09:20Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T09:24:35Z
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