Article ID: CBB001552686

The Astrolabe, the Sea and the Empire (2014)

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Gesteira, Heloisa Meireles (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 21, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 1011-1027


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

Based on certain texts written by Portugal's cosmographers of the kingdom between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, we bring to light the technical and scientific foundations for the European maritime expansion, highlighting the relationships between them and the making and use of the mathematical instruments used in ocean navigation. Our objective is not just to underline the scientific aspects of the artefacts used for these measurements, but also to ascertain how science and knowledge acquired a practical, strategic and symbolic meaning within the context of Portugal's expansion overseas.

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Authors & Contributors
Collins, Edward
Abreu, Laurinda
Almeida, Bruno
Ballantyne, Tony
Carey, Daniel
Carnemolla, Stefania Elena
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Ashgate
Tinta da China
Amsterdam University Press
Brill
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publicações Quipu
Concepts
Navigation
Travel; exploration
Geography
Sea travel
Imperialism
Astrolabes
People
Nunes, Pedro
Crignon, Pierre
Faleiro, Francisco
Hakluyt, Richard
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
18th century
Renaissance
Early modern
15th century
Places
Portugal
Spain
Africa
Europe
Brazil
India
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