On 6 of February in Lisbon, Dr. Jeffrey Kotyk will offer a workshop on Science and Astrology in China and Japan. It will address the history and transmission of Indo-Iranian astrology to East Asia. Free participation but registration required. Email:…
José Maria Moreno Madrid talked on the astronomical methods of calculation of longitude and it’s consequences on the territorial disputes between Spain and Portugal in the 16th century at the Helena Avelar Seminar on Ancient Astronomy and Astrology. January 12,…
Henrique Leitão and Juan Acevedo were invited speakers at the Séminaire d’histoire des sciences astronomiques. January 10, 2023, Syrte L'Observatoire de Paris, Paris
Henrique Leitão, LuÍs Ribeiro, Nuno Castel-Branco and David Salomoni participated in the RSA Virtual 2022 roundtable on "Mathematics and Empire: Certainty and the Usefulness of Knowledge in Early Modern Spanish Kingdoms". December 2, 2022, online
Henrique Leitão will present the plenary lecture "From periploi to oceanic rutters: Sailing directions and the construction of oceanic space" at the 6th International Conference Medieval Europe in Motion. November 30, 2022, Sociedade Portuguesa de Geografia, Lisbon, Portugal.
Nuno Vila-Santa: “Uma consequência da expedição Magalhães-Elcano? A circulação de pilotos, cartógrafos e cosmógrafos portugueses para Espanha” José María Moreno Madrid: "Os debates científicos das Juntas de Badajoz-Elvas (1524)” Carmo Lacerda: “O que é novo no Tratado del esphera de…
Henrique Leitão and José María Moreno Madrid will be in Chicago for the 2022 History of Science Society Annual Meeting "Sustainability, Regeneration, and Resiliency" to present Artisans Under Stress: Epistemological divides in the demarcation of Tordesillas (1494). 17-20 November 2022,…
David Salomoni presents “Teaching Universality: Historical and Geographical Education in Context, 15th-16th centuries” at the conference "Empires and Future Past in Universal History Writing". October18-19 2022, Oslo, Norway To attend: https://nettskjema.no/a/285298#/page/1
David Salomoni presents “Tra corpo e anima. Regolamenti sanitari per i gesuiti a bordo della Carreira da India, XVI-XVII sec.” at the conference "Inventare la sanità in età moderna: pratiche, agenti, norme". October12-13 2022, Università Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/1/64050
David Salomoni presented “L'Atlantico di Colombo e il Pacifico di Magellano: Navigazione, Politica, Geografia, Mito” at the conference "L’arte di navigare da Cristoforo Colombo ai giorni nostri". October 7 2022, Fondazione Casa America - Comune di Genova, Genova, Italy …