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Coordinator |
FCIENCIAS.ID - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE CIENCIAS
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Portugal [PT] |
Total cost | 1˙231˙319 € |
EC max contribution | 1˙231˙319 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
Code Call | ERC-2016-STG |
Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
Starting year | 2017 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2017-06-01 to 2022-05-31 |
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1 | FCIENCIAS.ID - ASSOCIACAO PARA A INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO DE CIENCIAS | PT (LISBON) | coordinator | 1˙231˙319.00 |
Of all the technical and scientific developments that made possible the early modern maritime expansion, the nautical chart is perhaps the least studied and understood. This fact is very surprising as it was through those charts that the newly discovered world was first shown to the amazed eyes of the European nations. Although the History of Cartography is a well-established academic discipline and old charts have been examined for many years, their detailed technical study is still in its infancy. What is the origin of the pre-Mercator nautical chart, how charts evolved technically over time and how they were used at sea are all critical questions that remain to be answered. I intend to approach these challenges in a truly interdisciplinary way, by using innovative and powerful tools as a complement to the traditional methods of historical research: analytical cartometric methods, numerical modelling and the examination of the manuscripts through special lighting. By applying these tools to a large sample of charts of various periods and origins, I aim to unveil hidden graphic content related to their construction and use, to characterize their main geometric features, to establish meaningful connections with contemporary navigational methods and exploration missions, and to numerically simulate their construction by taking into account the explanations given in the textual sources. The effectiveness of those techniques has already been demonstrated in my previous studies, such as in the solution of an historical enigma which had been alive for more than a century: the construction of the Mercator projection, in 1569. Now, I propose to handle a broader and more complex set of questions, which has eluded the historians of cartography for even a longer period. The clarification of these issues will have a ground-breaking impact, not only in the strict field of the History of Cartography, but also in the context of the intellectual history at large.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2019 |
Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Henrique Leitão Early Modern Nautical Charts and Maps: Working Through Different Cartographic Paradigms published pages: 1-28, ISSN: 1385-3783, DOI: 10.1163/15700658-12342627 |
Journal of Early Modern History 23/1 | 2020-01-30 |
2018 |
Gonçalo A. S. Dias Investigating Beccari’s Claims with New Cartometric Methods published pages: 121-181, ISSN: 1790-3769, DOI: |
e-Perimetron 13,3 | 2020-01-30 |
2019 |
Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Gregory McIntosh, Henrique Leitão, Bruno Almeida, Carlos Godinho, Jaume Sastre-Juan, André Ferrand Almeida, Samuel Gessner, Francisco Malta Romeiras, Luana Giurgevitch, Ana Duarte Rodrigues, Jorge Nuno Silva, Teresa Nobre de Carvalho, Nuno Castel-Branco, LuÃs Tirapicos, Gonçalo Dias. A Redondeza da Terra e Outras Histórias da Ciência e da Cartografia published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
May 2019 | 2020-01-30 |
2018 |
Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Henrique Leitão LuÃs Teixeira, c.1585: The Earliest Known Chart with Isogonic Lines published pages: 221-228, ISSN: 0308-5694, DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2018.1450554 |
Imago Mundi 70/2 | 2019-02-28 |
2018 |
Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Henrique Leitão What is a nautical chart, really? Uncovering the geometry of early modern nautical charts published pages: 130-136, ISSN: 1296-2074, DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2017.09.008 |
Journal of Cultural Heritage 29 | 2019-02-28 |
2018 |
Joaquim Alves Gaspar The Liber de existencia riveriarum ( c .1200) and the Birth of Nautical Cartography published pages: 1-21, ISSN: 0308-5694, DOI: 10.1080/03085694.2019.1529898 |
Imago Mundi 71/1 | 2019-02-28 |
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