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Manuel Xavier

PhD
Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, FCUL

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Research interests

  • History of Portuguese Scientifc Organisation (20th Century);
  • Science, University and Politics;
  • Material Culture and Scientific Instruments (Geographic missions).

Projects

  • Renovar entre a luta surda: resistências à renovação científica no meio universitário português em ditadura,” PhD in History of Sciences, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon . Supervisors: Henrique Leitão (CIUHCT–FCUL) and Ângela Salgueiro (IHC–FCSH), 2018–2024.

Publications

  • Manuel Xavier, "Falta de dinheiro e perseguição política: as fracas razões do atraso da matemática portuguesa," Gazeta de Matemática, no. 198 (2022): 31–35.
  • Manuel Xavier, "Peter Galison: o homem de inumeráveis subculturas," Gazeta de Física 37, no. 2 (2014): 16–21
  • Manuel Xavier, “Meanings of Practice, Morals of Error: The Case of Gago Coutinho's Salmoiraghi Theodolites,” Nuncius 35, no. 1 (2020): 114–140, https://doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03501001.

 

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