Constructing Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the New Sciences

Simões, Ana; Carneiro, Ana; Diogo, María Paula

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“…The commission was presided by Mariano Cyrillo de Carvalho, formerly professor at the Polytechnic School and director of its astronomical observatory built recently for teaching purposes, Campos Rodrigues, Frederico Tomás Oom, respectively director and subdirector of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon, Artur Teixeira de Bastos, who was also a member of the team of astronomers of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon, and José Nunes da Matta, professor at the Naval School. 52 The Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon was the leading observatory in Portugal despite being more recent than the Observatory of Coimbra, built in the eighteenth century in the context of the Marquis of Pombal's reforms of the teaching system (Simões et al 1999;Carneiro et al 2000). By 1900, following a long period of decline, and striving to respond to the new trends in astronomy, efforts were made to turn the observatory into a leading centre in astrophysics in Portugal (Costa Lobo 1933).…”

Section: The 1900 Solar Eclipse In the Lisbon Newspapermentioning

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Riding the Wave to Reach the Masses: Natural Events in Early Twentieth Century Portuguese Daily Press

2010

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This paper brings together science communicated in newspapers in Portugal by looking at how news on natural events were communicated in two different newspapersthe capital newspaper Dia´rio de Notı´cias (Daily News) and the Dia´rio dos Açores (Azores Daily). In particular, we look at how the 1900 solar eclipse, a hot topic throughout Europe, was reported by the capital newspaper, and how news on seismology were conveyed in the period 1907-1910 in the newspaper published in Azores, an archipelago with a significant seismic and volcanic activity. We argue that the importance conceded to these scientific news was related to their overwhelming features, that their dissimilar presentation stemmed from their local relevance allied to their different nature, predictable in the case of eclipses, and unpredictable in the case of earthquakes, and that behind these two instances of science journalism laid an attempt by the scientific and political communities to gain the support of the general public to such an extent that these two specific instances of science journalism transcended their usual features to become successful forms of expository science.

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Riding the Wave to Reach the Masses: Natural Events in Early Twentieth Century Portuguese Daily Press

2010

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“…While their strategies varied throughout the 18th century, all were aimed at changing the Portuguese scientific landscape, by introducing the new sciences in a country still deeply attached to scholasticism (Simo˜es et al 1999;Carneiro et al 2000).…”

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Communicating the new chemistry in 18th-century Portugal: Seabra’s Elementos de Chimica

2006

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“…3 Culturally, the new king's reign was characterized by the confrontation between the survival of archaic structures and the rise of new expectations of progress. At a time when the Inquisition was strengthening its influence and Aristotelianism and Scholasticism remained the rule in the educational system, the new scientific rationalism of the Enlightenment was also slowly gaining support in Portuguese intellectual circles, 4 with the estrangeirados playing an essential role in the process.…”

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Observing the skies of Lisbon. Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, an estrangeirado in the Royal Society

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2014

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Elected in 1723, Isaac de Sequeira Samuda (1681–1729) was the first Jewish Fellow of the Royal Society. He had arrived in London just a few years earlier, escaping from the Portuguese Inquisition. Despite his past, he had no difficulty in establishing links with his country's diplomatic representatives in London. A physician and adviser on scientific subjects, he became a conduit between the emerging world of Portuguese astronomy and the British scientific community. He reported to the Royal Society on astronomical observations made in the new observatories in Lisbon and helped with the acquisition of scientific instruments and books destined for Portugal. These activities were facets of Samuda's unusual career and the diverse though often converging associations that he established until his death. As the member of a network active in the diffusion of new ideas and in the modernization of Portuguese science, Samuda can be regarded as an estrangeirado , as this term has come to be used in the modern literature.

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Constructing Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the New Sciences

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Riding the Wave to Reach the Masses: Natural Events in Early Twentieth Century Portuguese Daily Press

Riding the Wave to Reach the Masses: Natural Events in Early Twentieth Century Portuguese Daily Press

Communicating the new chemistry in 18th-century Portugal: Seabra’s Elementos de Chimica

Observing the skies of Lisbon. Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, an estrangeirado in the Royal Society

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