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António Costa Canas

Military Professor
Naval School, Lisboa

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Research interests

  • History of Nautical Science;
  • History of Navy in the Contemporary Age;
  • History of Cartography;
  • History of Geodesy and Hidrography;
  • History of Mathematics;
  • History of Science in general.

Projects

Participation

  • Editing of the Complete Works of Pedro Nunes. Coordinator: Henrique Leitão.

Publications (selection)

  1. António Costa Canas e Maria Eugénia Ferrão (coord.), A Matemática no tempo de Mestre José Vizinho (Lisboa: Gradiva, 2009).
  2. António Costa Canas, Os Submarinos em Portugal (Lisboa: Prefácio, 2009).
  3. António Costa Canas, “Tiphys Lusitano do Padre Valentim Estancel”, Boletim da SPM, 61, (Outubro 2009), 47-79.
  4. António Costa Canas, “Contributos de Gauss para a Geodesia”, Boletim da SPM, 60, (Maio 2009), 67-86.
  5. António Costa Canas, Carlos Manuel Baptista Valentim, “The Portuguese Pharmacopoeia in the Renaissance: Tradition and Innovation”, Isabel Malaquias, Ernst Homburg e Maria Elvira Calapez (ed.), 5th International Conference on the History of Chemistry - “Chemistery, Technology and Society” – Proceedings, (Aveiro: SPQ – Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, 2006), 502-512.
  6. António Costa Canas, Alexandre Manuel Ribeiro Cartaxo e Helena Sofia Braga, “Origens do Clube Militar Naval”, Anais do Clube Militar Naval, CXXIX, (Julho – Setembro 1999), 457–497.
  7. António Costa Canas, Marta Isabel Nunes Ferreira, “O Mundo no início do século XVI. O conhecimento náutico e geográfico dos Portugueses”, Anais do Clube Militar Naval, CXXVI, (Julho – Setembro 1996), 441-477.

Scientific Societies and Other Institutions

  • International Committee for the History of Nautical Science, secretary
  • Seminário Nacional de História da Matemática, member of the secretariat
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