Mollweide, Karl Brandan

Mathematician, * Wolfenbüttel 2/3/1774, † Leipzig 3/10/1825.

Professor at Leipzig. His main subject was the trigonometry (Mollweide-formulas). He developed map projections. The equal-area untrue elliptical projection (1805) traces back to him.

  
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