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Early modern nautical rutters (sailing directions) are the earliest Western documents that testify to the stable and regular lived experience of traversing the earth’s oceans on a global, planetary scale.

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A Global Earth in the Classroom

A Global Earth in the Classroom Just published: David Salomoni (Editor) "A Global Earth in the Classroom". Leiden, Brill Publishers, 2024, 158 pp. More info about the book here.

Marie Curie Alumni Association 2024 annual conference

Silvana Munzi presented "From the past to the future: how modern technologies aid the study of early-modern manuscripts" (S. Munzi, J. Acevedo, M. Cataldo, L. Giurgevich) at the 2024 annual conference of the Marie Curie Alumni Association. From the past to the future: how modern technologies aid the study of early-modern manuscripts "From the past…

The Word and the Sword – Early Modern Spanish Pacific Studies and its Challenges, Opportunities, and Outlook

David Salomoni will participate in the roundtable "Situating the Philippines in Early Modern Iberian Studies" at the workshop "The Word and the Sword - Early Modern Spanish Pacific Studies and its Challenges, Opportunities, and Outlook". Situating the Philippines in Early Modern Iberian Studies David Salomoni will participate in the roundtable "Situating the Philippines in Early…

O princípio da Primavera e o alinhamento dos planetas

O princípio da Primavera e o alinhamento dos planetas Inês Bénard "O princípio da Primavera e o alinhamento dos planetas" O equinócio da Primavera é recebido em todo o mundo com um conjunto de significados diversos, e teve implicações importantes na história da astronomia. Que implicações tiveram os movimentos dos astros nas áreas do conhecimento,…

Jan Huygen van Linschoten´s Itinerario: a decaying commercial portrait of Portuguese Asia?

Jan Huygen van Linschoten´s Itinerario: a decaying commercial portrait of Portuguese Asia? Just published: Nuno Vila-Santa, "Jan Huygen van Linschoten´s Itinerario: a decaying commercial portrait of Portuguese Asia?" in Espelhos de Mercúrio. A representação do comércio nas Monarquias Ibéricas, 1500-1800, edited by Pablo Sánchez León, Carla Vieira and Nina Vieira, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de…

RUTTER Technical note n.13

Inês Bénard & Juan Acevedo Conspectus of Works of Sulaymān al-Mahrī RUTTER Technical note n.13 Inês Bénard & Juan Acevedo Conspectus of Works of Sulaymān al-Mahrī Version 1 Download

Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe

Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe Coming soon the new book of Nuno Vila-Santa published by the Amsterdam University Press: Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th-17th Centuries) This book explores knowledge exchanges between European maritime powers during the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, focusing…

Seminário de Física

A Longitude do Mundo. Ciência ibérica e demarcações globais na Idade Moderna José María Moreno Madrid "A Longitude do Mundo. Ciência ibérica e demarcações globais na Idade Moderna" Na restrita ecúmena ptolemaica, os limites territoriais entre entidades geográfico-políticas podiam ser traçados de maneira aproximada, recorrendo a estimativas de distâncias absolutas ou relativas. Várias unidades de…

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