Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century: Euler, Lagrange and Lambert

Book Overview

Part 1: Essays.- 1 Renzo Caddeo and Athanase Papadopoulos, Introduction.- 2 Athanase Papadopoulos, Ancient geography: some markers.- 3 Athanase Papadopoulos, Euler and Maupertuis on the figure of the Earth.- 4 Charalampos Charitos, On the duration of the passage of a star from an almucantar to another.- 5 Charalampos Charitos, The differential equations in Euler's work on geography.- 6 Athanase Papadopoulos, Euler, Delisle and cartography.- 7 Charalampos Charitos and Athanase Papadopoulos, On Delisle's geographical projection.- 8 Charalampos Charitos, Lagrange's method for the construction of geographical maps.- 9 Athanase Papadopoulos, Some notes on the impact of Lagrange's memoir On the construction of geographical maps.- 10 Annette A'Campo-Neuen, Lambert's work on geographic map projections.- Part II: Sources.- 11 Vincent Alberge and Athanase Papadopoulos, Elements of spheroidal trigonometry drawn from the method of maxima and minima. Leonhard Euler.- 12 Renzo Caddeo, On the representation of the spherical surface on the plane. Leonhard Euler.- 13 Renzo Caddeo, On the geographical projection of the surface of the sphere. Leonhard Euler.- 14 Renzo Caddeo, On Delisle's geographical projection used for a general map of the Russian Empire. Leonhard Euler.- 15 Vincent Alberge and Athanase Papadopoulos, On the construction of geographical maps. Joseph-Louis Lagrange.- 16 Annette A'Campo-Neuen, Notes and comments on the composition of terrestrial and celestial maps. Johann Heinrich Lambert.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031095693
• ISBN13: 9783031095696
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"