Johann Heinrich Lambert (German: [ˈlambɛɐ̯t]; French: Jean-Henri Lambert; 26 or 28 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was a polymath from the Republic of...
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(lunar crater), named after Johann Heinrich Lambert Lambert (Martian crater), named after Johann Heinrich Lambert Lambert (automobile), a defunct American...
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mapping systems. It is one of seven projections introduced by Johann Heinrich Lambert in his 1772 publication Anmerkungen und Zusätze zur Entwerfung...
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law or Lambert's emission law. It is named after Johann Heinrich Lambert, from his Photometria, published in 1760. A surface which obeys Lambert's law is...
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Lambert is a lunar impact crater on the southern half of the Mare Imbrium basin. It was named after Swiss polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert. It lies to...
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hygrometer. A more modern version was created by Swiss polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1755. Later, in the year 1783, Swiss physicist and geologist...
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mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert, who announced it in 1772. "Zenithal" being synonymous with "azimuthal", the projection is also known as the Lambert zenithal...
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square meter (the corresponding SI unit). The foot-lambert is named after Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777), a Swiss-German mathematician, physicist...
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introduced in the 1760s independently by Vincenzo Riccati and Johann Heinrich Lambert. Riccati used Sc. and Cc. (sinus/cosinus circulare) to refer to...
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obeys Lambert's cosine law, which makes the reflected radiance the same in all directions. Lambertian reflectance is named after Johann Heinrich Lambert, who...
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