Lambert, Johann Heinrich

Alsatian universal scholar. Christened at Mulhouse 8/26(?)/1728, † Berlin 9/25/1777.

Lambert was an autodidact in all matters. He supplied input to several subjects of science.

As a cartographer he was the first to detect area-fidelity and conformality as important properties of map projections.

The equal-area true projections originate from him.

  
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