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Lambert (iou) and Heschl, Richard (medicine)


Lambert (iou)



Lambert noun. In sense 3 lambert. L19.
[Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-77), German mathematician.]
Cartography. Used attrib. & in possess. to designate certain map projections devised by Lambert, spec. a conical conformal projection having two standard parallels along which the scale is true. L19.
Physics. Lambert's law: (a) that the intensity of the light emitted by an element of area of a perfectly diffusing surface is proportional to the cosine of the angle between the direction of emission and the normal to the surface; (b) that layers of equal thickness absorb an equal fraction of the light traversing them. L19.
(lambert.) A unit of luminance equal to one lumen per square centimetre (equivalent to approximately 3180 candelas per square metre). E20.

Heschl, Richard (medicine)


Heschl, Richard
<person> Austrian pathologist, 1824-1881.

See: Heschl's gyri.