Author: Luís de AlbuquerquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 712
Book Description
Estudos de historia da ciencia nautica
Author: Luís de AlbuquerquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : pt-BR
Pages : 712
Book Description
Shipbuilding, Navigation and the Portuguese in Pre-modern India
Author: K.S. MathewPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351588338
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
India, especially coastal India, has a long history of shipbuilding and navigation dating back to the Indus Valley Civilization. Indian shipwrights and the labour force associated with various aspects of shipbuilding excelled in naval architecture. Their native wisdom was adopted by the Europeans engaged in shipbuilding in coastal India. Similarly some of the techniques of navigation followed by Indians were emulated by the European mariners. A comprehensive peep into the science of naval architecture and navigation is attempted in this work making a comparative study of Indian and Portuguese architecture and navigation. The volume discusses the importance of the timber grown in the monsoon-fed forests of the Malabar coast and its appreciation by the Portuguese shipwrights and theoreticians of naval architecture. The work shows that increase of the tonnage of ocean-going vessels and the appearance of hostile mariners from other quarters of Western Europe compelled the Portuguese to adopt enhanced technology in naval architecture and navigation. The fact that the use of canons for defence against intruders made the Portuguese vessels stronger than the Indian ships which, for centuries, were accustomed to considerably peaceful navigation is also brought out in this much anticipated volume.
Handbook of Portuguese Studies
Author: Ieda Siqueira WiardaPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462814476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Science in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1500–1800
Author: Daniela BleichmarPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804776334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This collection of essays is the first book published in English to provide a thorough survey of the practices of science in the Spanish and Portuguese empires from 1500 to 1800. Authored by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the book consists of fifteen original essays, as well as an introduction and an afterword by renowned scholars in the field. The topics discussed include navigation, exploration, cartography, natural sciences, technology, and medicine. This volume is aimed at both specialists and non-specialists, and is designed to be useful for teaching. It will be a major resource for anyone interested in colonial Latin America.
Synergia
Author: Néstor HerránPublisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press
ISBN: 9788400085780
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance
Author: W.G.L. RandlesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000553175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr Randles looks at the advances in Portuguese navigation and cartography that helped sailors overcome the obstacles to the circumnavigation of Africa and the crossing of the Atlantic, and at the impact of the Discoveries on European culture and science. Other articles are concerned with Portuguese naval artillery, and with attempts to classify the indigenous societies of the newly-discovered lands and to map the interior of Africa.
Portugal and the discovery of the Atlantic
Author: Alfredo Pinheiro MarquesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic Area
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The New Science and Jesuit Science
Author: M. FeingoldPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401703612
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This volume makes an important contribution toward a nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity", and a greater recognition of their contribution to the mathematization of natural philosophy and experimental science. The six essays provide a cross-section of the complex Jesuit encounter with the mathematical sciences during the 17th century.
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