24 - 26 de Setembro de 2009
History of Astronomy in Portugal: Theories, Institutions and Practices
Museu de Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa

Programa*

* Coincides with the 22nd meeting of the National Seminar for the History of Mathematics, organized by the Portuguese Society of Mathematics (SPM)

Com a excepção da sessão de abertura, todas as sessões têm lugar no Anfiteatro Manuel Valadares do Museu de Ciência.

Quinta, 24 de Setembro

Anfiteatro de Química

09.30-10.00 Abertura: Prof Ana Eiró, Prof Luís Saraiva, outros (SPM, SPA, CIM).
10.00-10.50 Key note address:
Michael Hoskin (University of Cambridge) -
The cosmovision of the dolmen builders of south-west Europe
10.50-11.20 Coffee Break

Anfiteatro Manuel Valadares

11.20-12.10
Sérgio Nobre (Unesp, Rio Claro, Brasil) -
The astronomy presented by Isidore of Seville in his Etymologiae (7th century)
12.10-13.00
José Chabas (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) -
Traditions in computational astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula in Late Middle Ages
13.00-15.00 Intervalo para Almoço
15.00-15.50
José Vaquero (University of Extremadura, Spain) -
Long-term evolution of the Sun from Iberian historical documents
15.50-16.40
Henrique Leitão (FCUL, CIUHCT) -
A mathematical and astronomical "miracle": the dial of Achaz (título provisório)
16.40-17.10 Coffee break
17.10-18.00
Luís Tirapicos (MCUL, CIUHCT) -
Instruments and astronomical observations at the Jesuit College of Santo Antão-o-Novo, 1724-1759
18.00-18.50
Jim Bennett (Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford) -
Portugal and the European consensus of eighteenth-century astronomy

09.00-09.50
Roberto de Andrade Martins (Unicamp, Brasil) -
The interaction between academic thought and nautical knowledge in Portugal and Spain
09.50-10.40
António Costa Canas (Escola Naval, Lisbon) -
A introdução do Almanaque Náutico em Portugal (talk in Portuguese, with English slides)
10.40-11.20 Coffee Break
11.10-12.00
Ugo Baldini (Università degli Studi di Padova, Itália) -
Giovanni Paolo Lembo's lessons in S.Antão
12.00-13.00 - Paulo Crawford/Ana Simões (FCUL, CIUHCT) -
Astronomers and the Principle of Relativity: a Portuguese case study
13.00-15.00 - Intervalo para Almoço

Tarde

15.00 - Visit to the Laboratorio Chimico of the Polytechnic School (MCUL)
Marta Lourenço (MCUL)
16.30 - Visit to the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon (Ajuda)
Meeting point at the Museum Entrance.

09.50-10.40
Fernando Figueiredo (University of Coimbra) -
Astronomy in the Mathematics Faculty of the Coimbra University after Pombal's University Reform (1772-1820)
10.40-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20-12.10
Carlos Ziller Camenietzski (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) -
Restauration astronomers (em Português)
12.10-13.00
Pedro Raposo (University of Oxford/OAL) -
Observatory of Lisbon: the last "big science" undertaking of classical astronomy?
13.00-15.00 Intervalo para Almoço
15.00-15.50
Helmuth Malonek/ T. Costa (University of Aveiro) -
Francisco Miranda da Costa Lobo - a Portuguese astronomer and his attempts to open Portugal to the Scientific World
15.50-16.40
Isabel Malaquias (University of Aveiro) -
Between Astronomy and instrumentation - João Jacinto de Magalhães (1722 - 1790), a remarkable case
16.40-17.10 Coffee Break
17.10-18.00
Vitor Bonifácio (University of Aveiro) -
The beginning of astrophysics in Portugal
18.00 Encerramento do Encontro
20.00 Jantar do Encontro
Restaurant Real Fábrica (Rua da Escola Politécnica, 275)
Meeting point at the Museum entrance at 19.45.

Museu de Ciência
Universidade de Lisboa
Rua da Escola Politécnica 56
1250-102 Lisboa

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