Meteorology, Timekeeping and “Scientific Occupation”: Colonial Observatories in the Third Portuguese Empire

This paper presents a tentative overview of colonial observatories in the Third Portuguese Empire (1825-1957). The main issue under focus is the problem of action from a distance, that is, the attempts to steer an imperial network of observation from Lisbon, the tensions and obstacles that emerged i...

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1. Verfasser: Raposo, Pedro M.P.
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Cahiers François Viète 2022
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