Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert was a polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse, generally identified as either Swiss or French, who made important contributions to the subjects of mathematics, physics, philosophy, astronomy and map projections.

26 August 1728

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