Notes and Comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and Celestial Maps

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Chapter Chapter 16 in Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler, Lagrange and Lambert, 2022, pp 367-422 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this memoir, J. H. Lambert for the first time formulates desired properties of maps from parts of the sphere to the plane such as to preserve angles or to preserve the proportion of area or to map great circles to lines or circles. He obtains conditions for such maps in terms of differential equations and constructs explicit families of examples some of which have become important tools in modern cartography.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09570-2_16

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