RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 52

July 2006

 
PART XI:

Science & History of Science, Natural History,

Medicine, Mathematics, Nautical Science

 
See also items 51, 71, 77, 110, 135, 157, 158, 178, 194 & 210.

114. CORREIA, Clara Pinto. "E Fez-se a Luz": o Deus todo-poderoso da obra de Newton e dos seus comentadores ingleses. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 2005. Mosaicos de Ciência, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 114 pp., (3 ll., 2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-708-835-X. $24.00

The author, born in Lisbon in 1960, has published well over 40 titles since 1983, including fiction, poetry, essays, juvenile literature, and scientific works addressed to the more intelligent sectors of the general public. She has done post-doctoral research in embryology at SUNY Buffalo. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 139-40.

 
115. FIOLHAIS, Carlos, ed. Einstein entre nós: a recepção de Einstein em Portugal de 1905 a 1955. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 2005. Série Documentos. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 207 pp., numerous color illus. in text. ISBN: 972-8704-60-7. $40.00

 
116. TEIXEIRA, Francisco Gomes (1851-1933). História das matemáticas em Portugal. Preface by Aníbal Scipião de Carvalho. Lisbon: Arquimedes Livros, 2006. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. vi, 300 pp. One of 90 copies. ISBN: 972-8917-12-0. $30.00

Facsimile reprint of the first (and only?) edition published in Lisbon by the Academia das Ciências, 1934.

 
117. TELLES, Francisco Xavier da Silva (1860-1930). Obras de Silva Telles: a ciência geográfica. Lisbon: Associação Portuguesa de Geógrafos, 2004. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 189, (1) pp., (1 l.), port. in text. One of 500 copies. ISBN: none. $28.00

 
118. VIEIRA, João A. Gomes. O Homem e o Mar: Os Açorianos e a pesca longínqua nos bancos da Terra Nova e Gronelândia. / Man and the Sea: The People of the Azores and Long-distance Fishing in the Banks of Newfoundland and Greenland. Lisbon: Intermezzo-Audiovisuais, 2004. Folio (30.7 x 24.2 cm.), publ. gilt-stamped cloth with d.j. 259 pp., (1 p. adv.), profusely illus., some illus. in color. Text in Portuguese and English. ISBN: 972-98950-1-5. $100.00