Pedro M. P. Raposo

Curator
Adler Planetarium

Research interests

  • Observatories and their sciences (astronomy, geophysics, etc.);
  • Science, empire and colonialism;
  • Networks and circulation: theoretical and historiographical aspects;
  • Military and science;
  • Scientific biography.

Projects

  • "Regimes, saberes e mobilidade: as redes científicas e as missões internacionais no desenvolvimento da ciência em Portugal da Regeneração à Primeira República (1851-1926)". Post-doctoral research project. (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/73373/2010).

Publications (selection)

  1. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "The quest for stellar parallax in the nineteenth century, the ‘astronomical capital of the world’ and the foundation of the Observatory of Lisbon", in Luís Saraiva (ed.), History of Astronomy in Portugal. Institutions, Theories, Practices (Porto: Sociedade Portuguesa de Astronomia, 2014), pp. 241-264.
  2. Pedro M. P. Raposo, Ana Simões, Manolis Patiniotis, José Bertomeu-Sanchez, "Moving Localities and Creative Circulation: Travels as knowledge production in eighteenth-century Europe", Centaurus (published online 22/7/2014) 
  3. Alice Santiago Faria, Pedro M. P. Raposo, Mobilidade e circulação: perspectivas em História da Ciência e da Tecnologia (Lisboa: CIUHCT/CHAM, 2014).
  4. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Time, weather and empires: the Campos Rodrigues Observatory in Mozambique (1905-1930)", Annals of Science (published online 17/6/2014).
  5. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Surveyors of the Promised Land: hydrographical engineers and the techno-scientific resurgence of the Portuguese overseas empire", HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology 7 (2013): 85-119.
  6. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "O Império e o Tempo: Notas Para uma Abordagem à História dos Observatórios Coloniais Portugueses", in Maria Paula Diogo, Isabel Maria Amaral (eds.), A Outra Face do Império: ciência, tecnologia e medicina (sécs. XIX-XX) (Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2012), pp. 17-29.
  7. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa: um observatório nacional na Universidade", in Marta C. Lourenço, Maria João Neto (eds.), Património da Universidade de Lisboa: Ciência e Arte (Lisboa: Universidade de Lisboa/Tinta da China, 2011), pp. 99-105.
  8. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "The material culture of nineteenth-century astrometry, its circulation and its heritage at the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon", in Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.), Cultural Heritage of Astronomical Observatories - From Classical Astronomy to Modern Astrophysics (Berlin: ICOMOS, 2009), pp. 99-113.
  9. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Charming tools of a demanding trade: the heritage of nineteenth-century astrometry at the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon", Rittenhouse - The Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise 22 (2008): 25-46.
  10. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Down-to-Earth solutions for celestial purposes: remarks on the life and works of the astronomer/instrument maker Campos Rodrigues (1836-1919)’, in Bart Grob, Hans Hooijmaijers (eds.), Who Needs Scientific Instruments: Conference on Scientific Instruments and Their Users, 20-22 October 2005 (Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2006), pp. 203-206.

Scientific Societies and Other Institutions

  • Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP): member of the Steering Committee.
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