Tissot, Nicolas Auguste

Nicolas Auguste Tissot, french Mathematician and Cartographer, * Nancy 3/16/1824, † Paris 1897.

Tissot analysed distortions that occurs on map projections and developed a map projection with minimal distortion.
The Tissot Indicatrix is named after him. This concerns ellipses, which visualize the local distortions of a map projection. He published about this in 1859 and 1871 and subsumed his findings in a book in 1881.

  
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