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.