Proceedings of the First Colloquium of the Centre for the Study of the Portuguese Discoveries
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Proceedings of the First Colloquium of the Centre for the Study of the Portuguese Discoveries
(Studies in the Portuguese discoveries, 1)
Aris & Phillips with the Comissão Nacional para as Comemoracões dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, c1992
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The discoveries of the Portuguese made an impact on every area of human endeavour, as shown in the broad scope and trans-discliplinary nature of the papers collected here. They include a biography of Prince Henry the Navigator, a history of the Maldive Islands, and studies of the movement of populations, the technologies of ship-building, and of astronomical navigation, as well as a computer analysis of Joao de Barros' Decadas .
Table of Contents
- Prine Henry and the necessary end, P.E. Russell
- the Portuguese in the Maldive Islands, John Villiers
- mixed race groups in the early history of Portuguses expansion, Malyn Newitt
- Portuguese shipbuilding - from Genoa to Goa via geometry, Richard Barker
- a consequence of discovery - astronomical navigation in 15th-century Portugal, Francis Maddison
- the computer analysis of Joao de Barros' Asia, Stephen Parkinson.
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