Abstract
This essay explores the meaning of the demise of the scientific career of Jacques-Dominique, Comte de Cassini (Cassini IV). Cassini, astronomer, cartographer, poet, and political reactionary in Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary France, was cast out of science in the course of the French Revolution. Cassini, unlike many colleagues, publicly fought his academic exile. Partly as a result of that resistance, Cassini's life and writings provide insight into the changing role and status of large-scale cartography in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, both in geography and as "science."
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