RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 47

July 2005

 
PART IX:

Science & History of Science, Natural History,

Medicine, Mathematics, Nautical Science

 
See also items 111, 116, 118, 152, 153 & 165.

128. FITAS, Augusto J.S., and António A.P. Videira, eds. Cartas entre Guido Beck e cientistas portugueses. Lisbon: Instituto Piaget, 2004. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 327 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972 - 771 - 750 - 0. $38.00

Guido Beck (1903 - 1988) corresponded with Bento de Jesus Caraça, Ruy Luís Gomes, António Aniceto Monteiro and Manuel Valadares, among others. He was sympathetic to the movement to modify the Portuguese scientific climate curing the 1940s.

 
129. GODINHO DE EREDIA, Manuel. Suma de Arvores e Plantas da India Intra Ganges. J.G. Everraert, J.E. Mendes Ferrão, and M. Cândida Liberato, eds. Preface by Luís Filipe F.R. Thomaz. Lisbon: CNCDP, 2001. Colecção Outras Margens. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 169 pp., maps and tables in text, 76, (1) ll. with 75 full page facsimiles of the original manuscript color botanical illus., with text on versos (the third leaf with text on both recto and verso). ISBN: 972 - 787 - 067 - 8. $40.00

The interesting preface occupies pp. 9 - 22. The text consists of three main parts: "Manuel Godinho de Erédia. Humaniste ou aventurier?" by J.G. Everraert (pp. 23 - 88); "As plantas de Manuel Godinho de Erédia" by J.E. Mendes Ferrão and M. Cândida Liberato (pp. 89 - 160); and "A Suma de Arvores e Plantas da India Intra Ganges," (pp. 161 - 2) including "Présentation du Codex" (pp. 163 - 5) and "La terminologie de l'époque utilisée par Erédia (pp. 166 - 8) by J.G. Everaert. The facsimile of the Codex appears after p. 168 and before the table of contents (p. 169). The original Codex is at the Abbey of Tongerlo, Belgium.