Notes & Comments on Composition of Terrestrial & Celestial Maps - Tapa blanda

Johann Heinrich Lambert stepped beyond humble beginnings to walk among royalty and leading scholars of eighteenth-century Europe. Largely self-taught, he became one of the world’s preeminent mathematicians and cartographers, and he was among the first to address the general properties of map projections.

Waldo R. Tobler, a leading geographer, professor, cartographer, is a prolific author on the subject of map projections and computational geography. He is professor emeritus in geography at the University of California Santa Barbara, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Geographical Society.