RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 48

September 2005

 
PART XI:

Science & History of Science, Natural History

 
See also items 55 & 169.

105. SALDANHA, Luiz. Fauna submarina atlântica: Portugal continental, Açores, Madeira. Edição revista e aumentada. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1995. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 364 pp., numerous illus. in text, 46 ll. color plates, printed on both sides, with 277 color photographs. ISBN: 972-1-03875-X. $58.00

Preface by Prof. Germano da Fonseca Sacarrão. The photographs and sketches are by the author, a professor in the Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa. The book first appeared in 1980.

 
106. SIMON, William. Scientific Expeditions in the Portuguese Overseas Territories (1783-1808) and the Role of Lisbon in the Intellectual-Scientific Community of the Late Eighteenth Century. Lisbon: Inst. de Investigação Científica Tropical, Centro de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga, 1983. Estudos de Cartografia Antiga, 22. Folio (28.7 x 21.3 cm.), publ. bds. with d.j. xvi, 193, (1) pp., with 21 illus. & maps. ISBN: none. $50.00

Important, well-written and interesting work.