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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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Carmo Lacerda
Carmo Lacerda obtained a PhD scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) with the project "Ensinar a Arte de Navegar: O Piloto Oceânico e as Práticas Educativas na Península Ibérica nos sécs. XVI-XVII". Carmo Lacerda Carmo Lacerda obtained a PhD scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e a…
Cosmologies old and new: early modern transformations in scientific and philosophical thought
Cosmologies old and new: early modern transformations in scientific and philosophical thought Cosmologies old and new: early modern transformations in scientific and philosophical thought This lecture and debate will focus on the cosmology and natural philosophy transformations of the seventeenth century prompted by global navigations and the celestial discoveries made with the telescope. Researcher H.…
RUTTER Technical note n.2 v.5
Juan Acevedo, Inês Bénard & Juliane Müller Indian Ocean Arab Navigation Studies Towards a Global Perspective: Annotated Bibliography and Research Roadmap RUTTER Technical note n.2 v.5 Juan Acevedo, Inês Bénard & Juliane Müller Indian Ocean Arab Navigation Studies Towards a Global Perspective: Annotated Bibliography and Research Roadmap Version 5 Know More
Do passado ao futuro: manuscritos antigos e tecnologias modernas
Actividade no âmbito das iniciativas organizadas para o Dia da Ecologia. Do passado ao futuro: manuscritos antigos e tecnologias modernas Actividade no âmbito das iniciativas organizadas para o Dia da Ecologia (https://www.ecologyday.eu/). A navegação oceânica nos séculos XVI e XVII revelou aos navegadores uma natureza desconhecida. Cada viagem era uma oportunidade para coletar dados globais…
The long life of manuscripts: from material to immaterial texts
The long life of manuscripts: from material to immaterial texts RUTTER TRAINING SCHOOL: The long life of manuscripts: from material to immaterial texts This course provides a thorough overview of multidisciplinary approaches to early modern scientific writing practices. The course consists of three parts. The first is a theoretical part with lectures providing knowledge on…
Fighting for a Mare Clausum and Secret Science: France, England and Spain in the Strategies of Ambassador Dantas (1557-1568)
Fighting for a Mare Clausum and Secret Science: France, England and Spain in the Strategies of Ambassador Dantas (1557-1568) Vegueta. Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia Nuno Vila-Santa "Fighting for a Mare Clausum and Secret Science: France, England and Spain in the Strategies of Ambassador Dantas (1557-1568)" The Portuguese ambassador to France and…
Diplomacia y humanismo: el embajador Jean Nicot y la rivalidad marítima franco-portuguesa (1559-1561)
Diplomacia y humanismo: el embajador Jean Nicot y la rivalidad marítima franco-portuguesa (1559-1561) Anuario De Estudios Americanos Nuno Vila-Santa "Diplomacia y humanismo: el embajador Jean Nicot y la rivalidad marítima franco-portuguesa (1559-1561)" This article aims to re-examine Jean Nicot’s embassy to Portugal, by using his correspondence. I attempt to show that the main episodes in…
Society for Renaissance Studies 10th Biennial Conference
Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Conference 'Difficult Pasts' July 19-22, 2023, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Conference 'Difficult Pasts' Nuno Vila-Santa "Global Maritime Spies? Portuguese Espionage to the English Expeditions to West Africa (1553-1567)" July 19-22, 2023, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Rutter Logo
The Rutter Logo captures the notion of what a rutter is, with some poetic license. Oceanic Rutters are instructions to perform regular long-distance sea voyages. The voyage is represented by the blue line; its shape is somewhat akin to the India Run, with its famous contour around Africa; the two reflected R’s, signify the outbound and inbound voyages; the double tt can be assimilated to the “pillars of Hercules”. The Rutter Logo was designed by Luís Ribeiro.