Cassini diagram - Cassini diagram

Japanese: カッシニ図 - かっしにず
Cassini diagram - Cassini diagram

…In the area of ​​the shape of the Earth, he opposed the Newtonian school of Desaguliers (1683-1744) and Maupertuis (1698-1759), who had just begun to appear in France, and firmly supported his father's theory of elongation. César François C. (1714-84), the third Count of Thuris, and Jacques Dominique C. (1748-1845), the fourth, worked together to complete what became known as the Cassini map in 1793. This was a large-scale map (1:86,400) of the whole of France (182 sheets in total), and was a monumental work that became the model for subsequent topographical maps in other countries. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "Cassini Map" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…地球の形状では,ようやくフランスにも登場し始めたデザギュリエJ.T.Désaguliers(1683‐1744),モーペルテュイP.L.M.de Maupertuis(1698‐1759)らのニュートン派と対立して,縦長説を堅持し,父親の説を強く擁護した。3代目で,テュリ伯となったセザール・フランソワCésar François C.(1714‐84)と4代目のジャック・ドミニクJacques Dominique C.(1748‐1845)は協力して〈カッシニ図〉と呼ばれるものを1793年に完成させた。これはフランス全土の8万6400分の1という大縮尺図(全182葉)で,その後における各国の地形図の範となった記念すべき作品である。…

※「カッシニ図」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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