Properties:
- whole sphere possible, but areas farther than 90°
from map center are heavily distorted. Usage for only one hemisphere
therefore recommended.
- equal area
- great circles through map center are mapped to straight lines
- small circles centered in map center are mapped to circles (radii of
these circles are given by sine of half distance angle to map center, distance between
parallels is not constant!)
- Poles are mapped to points
Published by Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777).
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