Fernando Egídio Reis

Secondary School Professor
Cacilhas-Tejo Secondary School

Research interests

  • History of Science in Portugal (18th to 20th centuries);
  • History of Scientific Periodicals in Portugal;
  • European Networks of Scientific Periodicals (18th to 20th centuries);
  • Scientific popularisation in Portugal and Europe (18th to 20th centuries).

Projects

Participation

  • “Reading newspapers: an open window to representations of science and technology in the Portuguese press (1900-1926)", (PTDC/HCT/68210/2006), 2008-2011.
  • “European Network on «Scientific Periodicals in Modern Europe". “Les périodiques savants dans l’Europe des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Instruments et vecteurs du travail savant”. (European Science Foundation (2004) ; Centre Alexandre Koyré – Centre de Recherches en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques / Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme ; Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall), 2008-2010.

Publications (selection)

  1. Fernando Egídio Reis, “Scientific Dissemination in Portuguese Encyclopaedic Periodicals, 1779-1820”, History of Science, xiv (2007), 83-118.
  2. Fernando Egídio Reis (ed. e coord.), Felicidade, Utilidade e Instrução, A Divulgação Científica no Jornal Enciclopédico dedicado à Rainha, 1779; 1788-1793; 1806. (Porto: Porto Editora, 2006).
  3. Fernando Egídio Reis, “Bringing Scientific Knowledge to Portuguese Readers: Chemistry in Periodicals of Portuguese Liberal Emigrés (1808-1822)”, 5th International Conference on the History of Chemistry, Chemistry Technology and Society, de 2005.
  4. Fernando Egídio Reis, “Comunicando as Ciências ao Público. As ciências nos periódicos portugueses de finais do séc. XVIII e princípios do séc. XIX”, Actas do III SOPCOM, VI LUSOCOM e II IBÉRICO. (Covilhã: UBI, 2005), Vol. III, pp. 305-315.
  5. Nuno Crato, Fernando Reis, Luís Tirapicos, Trânsitos de Vénus, à procura da escala exacta do sistema solar, (Lisboa: Gradiva, 2004).
  6. Fernando Egídio Reis, “The popularisation of science in Portugal in the eighteenth century: «The Encyclopaedic Journal» (Jornal Enciclopédico)”, Institutions and Societies for Teaching, Research and Popularisation. (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2002), pp. 295-305.
  7. Fernando Egídio Reis, “A Divulgação Científica em periódicos portugueses de emigração «O Investigador Portuguez em Inglaterra» (1811-1819)”, Actas do 1.º Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de História da Ciência e da Técnica. (Évora: Universidade de Évora e Universidade de Aveiro, 2001), pp. 388-396.
Fotografia de Fernando Egídio Reis
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