Editing 1772 in science (section)

==Cartography==
* [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]] publishes seven new [[map projection]]s, including the [[Lambert conformal conic projection|Lambert conformal conic]], [[Transverse Mercator projection|transverse Mercator]] and [[Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection|Lambert azimuthal equal area]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lambert|first=Johann Heinrich|title=Ammerkungen und Zusatze zurder Land und Himmelscharten Entwerfung|year=1772|journal=Beiträge zum Gebrauche der Mathematik in deren Anwendung|volume=3|issue=6}} Reprint: {{cite web|title=Anmerkungen und Zusätze zur Entwerfung der Land- und Himmelscharten|publisher=W. Engelmann|year=1894|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABR2581.0001.001|format=xml|accessdate=2007-04-10}} Translation: {{cite book|title=Notes and Comments on the Composition of Terrestrial and Celestial Maps|year=1972|publisher=University of Michigan Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Snyder|first=John P.|title=Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1993|isbn=0-226-76747-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Snyder|first=John P.|title=Map Projections: a Working Manual|series=U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395|publisher=United States Government Printing Office|location=Washington, D.C.|year=1987|url=https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp1395| accessdate=26 April 2011 <!--Added by DASHBot-->| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516070706/http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp1395 | archivedate=May 16, 2008<!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>