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

edited by T.F. Earle & Stephen Parkinson

(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 .

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  • 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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