Joaquim Alves Gaspar

research interests

• History of Cartography
• History of Nautical Science
• Cartometric analysis and modeling of early maps

Projectos

• MEDEA-CHART: "The Medieval and Early Modern Nautical Chart: Birth, Evolution and Use", Starting Grant do European Research Council (714033 - MEDEA-CHART), 2017-2023; Principal Researcher.
• "Estudo da cartografia náutica portuguesa dos séculos XV e seguintes: uma abordagem multidisciplinar" , post-doc research project, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCT SFRH/BPD/69715/2010), 2010-2016.

publications

1. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "Revisiting the Mercator World Map of 1569: an Assessment of Navigational Accuracy", Journal of Navigation, 69 (2016): 1183-1196.
2. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "The Representation of the West Indies in the early Iberian Cartography", Terrae Incognitae, 47:1 (2015), 10-32.
3. Henrique Leitão e Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "Globes, Rhumb Tables, and the Pre-History of the Mercator Projection", Imago Mundi, 66:2 (2014), 180-195.
4. Joaquim Alves Gaspar e Henrique Leitão, "Squaring the Circle: How Mercator Constructed His Projection in 1569", Imago Mundi, 66:1 (2014), 1-24.
5. Joaquim Alves Gaspar , "Blunders, Errors and Entanglements: Scrutinizing the Cantino Planisphere with a Cartometric Eye", Imago Mundi, 64: 2 (2012), 181-200.
6. Joaquim Alves Gaspar , "De la Méditerranée à l’Océan: Nouveaux problèmes, nouvelles solutions", in Catherine Hofmann et. al. (dir.),  L'Âge d'or des cartes maritimes - Quand l'Europe découvrait le monde, (Paris: Seuil & Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2012), pp. 126-135.
7. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "Using Empirical map projections for modeling early nautical charts", in Anne Ruas (ed.), Advances in Cartography and GIScience, vol. 2. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2011), pp. 227-
   247.
8. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, From the Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean to the Latitude Chart of the Atlantic: Cartometric Analysis and Modeling. (Lisboa: tese de doutoramento (ISEGI/UNL), 2010).
9. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "Dead reckoning and magnetic declination: unveiling the mystery of portolan charts", e-Perimetron, 3: 4 (2008), 191-203.
10. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "The Myth of the Square Chart", e-Perimetron, 2: 2, (2007), 66-79.

Scientific Societies and other institutions

• International Cartographic Association – member of the Comission “Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage”, since 2006.
• Navy Academy - sitting member, since 2013.
• Lisbon Geographic Society - member since 1997.