IsisCB Explore

Chapter ID: CBB152315327

Fortificação moderna, engenheiros militares e defesa do território: redes de actuação intercontinental (2021)

Margarida Tavares da Conceição (Author)

Tinta da China
Volume: 1
Pages: 417-448
Publication date: 2021
Language: Portuguese

URI: https://tintadachina.pt/produto/ciencia-tecnologia-medicina-1/

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

Google Books

International relations Science and war; science and the military National sovereignty Decision making Civil defense Engineers, military 17th century Portugal Pimentel, Luis Serrão

The Restauration War cycle (starting in 1640, recovering Portuguese sovereignty within the European war map) renewed the borders defence and gathered a large contingent of foreigner military engineers, mostly French. The discussion on methods of fortification and decision-making was made along with Portuguese politicians, military officers and technicians. For the evaluation of this process the performance of Luís Serrão Pimentel becomes relevant: as cosmographer and responsible for training a new generation of military engineers, aiming to create a Lusitanian method, somehow has rescued the Portuguese ability for action, sustaining it on an intercontinental scale.

...More

Included in

Book Sánchez, Antonio; Fontes da Costa, Palmira; Leitão, Henrique de Sousa (2021) Ciência, Tecnologia E Medicina Na Construção de Portugal. 1: Novos Horizontes (Sécs. XV a XVII). unapi

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB152315327

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Antónia Fialho Conde; M. Rosa Massa-Esteve; (2018)
Teaching Engineers in the Seventeenth Century: European Influences in Portugal (/p/isis/citation/CBB726579066/)

Chapter Antónia Fialho Conde; Maria Paula Diogo; (2021)
Luís Serrão Pimentel, Manuel de Azevedo Fortes: a construção da engenharia militar portuguesa (/p/isis/citation/CBB777543048/)

Book Dr Aashique Ahmed Iqbal; (2023)
The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India (/p/isis/citation/CBB547914611/)

Article Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues; (2016)
La profession d’ingénieur au Portugal; (Engineering as a Profession in Portugal) (/p/isis/citation/CBB798171699/)

Article Maria Paula Diogo; (2016)
"To be or not to be": la construction d’une identité civile pour les ingénieurs militaires portugais; (“To Be or Not to Be": Building a Civilian Identity for the Portuguese Military Engineers) (/p/isis/citation/CBB793589387/)

Article Antoni Maria Claret Roca Rosell; Maria Rosa Massa Esteve; (2020)
L’Acadèmia Militar de Matemàtiques de Barcelona. L’Informe de 1730 de Jorge Próspero de Verboom [The Military Academy of Mathematics of Barcelona. The Report of 1730 by Jorge Próspero De Verboom] (/p/isis/citation/CBB724490937/)

Article Maurizio Gatto; (2011)
Diades' Ram-tortoise in the Treatise On Machines by Athenaeus Mechanicus. Some Remarks on its Reconstruction (/p/isis/citation/CBB298614258/)

Book Leggett, Don; (2015)
Shaping the Royal Navy: Technology, Authority and Naval Architecture, c.1830--1906 (/p/isis/citation/CBB001551964/)

Article Arthur Molella; Kargon, Robert Hugh; (2023)
Atomville: Architects, Planners, and How to Survive the Bomb (/p/isis/citation/CBB620667345/)

Book Grant, Matthew; (2010)
After the Bomb: Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain, 1945--68 (/p/isis/citation/CBB001031287/)

Article Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon; (2000)
Simulating the Unthinkable: Gaming Future War in the 1950s and 1960s (/p/isis/citation/CBB000110291/)

Book Krugler, David F.; (2006)
This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C, Prepared for Nuclear War (/p/isis/citation/CBB000760707/)

Book Moreno, Jonathan D.; (2006)
Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (/p/isis/citation/CBB000772768/)

Article Turner, Jonathan; (2012)
Politics and Defence Research in the Cold War (/p/isis/citation/CBB001211540/)

Book Herman L. Bennett; (2018)
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (/p/isis/citation/CBB095146494/)

Book Maria Paula Diogo; Cristina Luís; M. Luísa Sousa; (2021)
Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina na Construção de Portugal. 4: Inovação e Contestação (Séc. XX) (/p/isis/citation/CBB290154240/)

Article Hugo Silveira Pereira; (January 2021)
Railway Imperialism Revisited: The Failed Line from Macao to Guangzhou (/p/isis/citation/CBB804415745/)

Article Pedro Seabra; (2021)
‘Despite the special bonds that tie us’: Portugal, Brazil, and the South Atlantic in the late Cold War (/p/isis/citation/CBB764134031/)

Book Júlia Gaspar; (2019)
Percursos da Física e da Energia Nucleares na Capital Portuguesa: Ciência, Poder e Política, 1947-1973 (/p/isis/citation/CBB714321038/)

Article Carolino, Luís Miguel; Mota, Teresa Salomé; Figueiredo, Dulce; (2013)
The Portuguese Polytechnicians of the “Long Nineteenth Century”: Technical Expertise, Military Aspirations, and Political Disenchantment. a Preliminary Study (/p/isis/citation/CBB001321193/)