2012
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702012000100003
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Os objetivos da circunavegação da U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842): longitude, mapeamento náutico e instituição das coordenadas geográficas modernas

Abstract: Analisa o principal objetivo da viagem científica de circunavegação realizada pelos EUA entre 1838 e 1842. A tarefa de mapeamento destaca-se entre outras metas científico-estratégicas da viagem exploratória. A iniciativa da empreitada foi movida pela busca da exata localização em alto-mar após a instituição do sistema de longitudes, quando cartas náuticas e mapas de vários países foram conferidos, e outros, novos, desenhados. Os EUA participaram desse esforço internacional, dando início à constituição de um si… Show more

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“…An example of this type of production that neglects the history of science in Brazil can be seen in Junqueira (2012), which is about a voyage around the world of US Navy captain Charles Wilkes. Some points of that text in which the author presents a version of Brazilian participation at the Congress of Washington of 1884, the objective of which was to establish a universal prime meridian for the calculation of the hour, is discussed here; the result was the recommendation of the adoption of the Greenwich meridian as zero longitude.…”
Section: Brazil and The Washington Conferencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…An example of this type of production that neglects the history of science in Brazil can be seen in Junqueira (2012), which is about a voyage around the world of US Navy captain Charles Wilkes. Some points of that text in which the author presents a version of Brazilian participation at the Congress of Washington of 1884, the objective of which was to establish a universal prime meridian for the calculation of the hour, is discussed here; the result was the recommendation of the adoption of the Greenwich meridian as zero longitude.…”
Section: Brazil and The Washington Conferencementioning
confidence: 99%