Lambert’s Work on Geographic Map Projections

Annette A’Campo-Neuen ()
Additional contact information
Annette A’Campo-Neuen: University of Basel

Chapter Chapter 10 in Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler, Lagrange and Lambert, 2022, pp 183-202 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We summarize Lambert’s ideas on map projections of the sphere to the plane focusing on his main contributions to mathematical geography. He formulated desired properties of such a map in particular to be angle-preserving or in modern terms conformal and to be area-preserving, and characterized the condition with fundamental differential equations and found interesting examples. He also indicated an extension of those differential equations and constructions to maps of a spheroidally shaped Earth. Lambert gave impulses that inspired e.g. Euler and Lagrange to investigate these issues further.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-09570-2_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031095702

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09570-2_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().