Giovanni Cassini was an astronomer, mathematician together with cartographer. In cartography he is in all probability near known for his family's Carte de France, the starting fourth dimension e'er topographic map of an an entire country. Started yesteryear Giovanni the Carte de French Republic or the Cassini Maps were created yesteryear 4 generations of the Cassini draw of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement inwards the 18th together with 19th centuries. The Cassini Maps were the starting fourth dimension real accurate national survey based on geodetic triangulation.
You tin thought all 182 pages of the Cassini Maps overlaid on overstep of Google Maps at the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
Giovanni Cassini too made globes. You tin thought a virtual 3d version of Cassini's 1790 Globo Terrestre on this Esri Old Globe map. The globe shows the routes of iii of Captain James Cook's voyages. It too includes many of Cook's discoveries inwards the Pacific, including fairly accurate representations of New Zealand together with Australia.
If you lot are interested inwards viewing to a greater extent than historical terrestrial globes together with therefore you lot powerfulness too savour the Virtual Globes Museum. This site includes 3d versions of the 1507 Waldseemüller globe, a pose out of world together with celestial globes yesteryear the Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu together with globes yesteryear the Venetian Vincenzo Coronelli.
You tin thought 3d versions of Mercator's world Globe together with Mercator's Celestial Globe on the University of Lausanne's website. Finally, you lot tin thought Miranda's World Map (1706) together with Coronelli's Terrestial Globe using the State Library of New South Wales's Meridian application
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