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Johann Heinrich Lambert

Died on September 25, 1777

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Johann Heinrich Lambert (German:; French: Jean-Henri Lambert; 26 or 28 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was an Alsatian polymath from the Republic of Mulhouse—then an associate of the Swiss Confederacy—who made fundamental contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map…

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