César-François Cassini de Thury is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists César-François Cassini de Thury as French cartographer and astronomer (1714-1784).
César-François Cassini de Thury was born at Paris in 1714. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of France.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as astronomer and cartographer.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society.
César-François Cassini de Thury died in 1784, aged 70. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Recorded as astronomer and cartographer
