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