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The Practice of Mathematics in Portugal

Program

November 16
16.30 Registration
17.30 Welcome speech
18.00 Henrique Leitão (Lisbon) - The Practice of Mathematics in Portugal: Problems and Methods
18.50 Luís Saraiva (Lisbon) - Aspects of the Historiography of Mathematics in Portugal
19.40 End of afternoon session
20.00 Dinner

November 17
09.30 A. Freitas (London) -De Morgan's Laws or Petrus Hispanus' Laws?
10.20 B. R. Goldstein (Pittsburgh) -Judah Ben Verga and Medieval Astronomical Tables
11.10 Coffee break
11.30 José Chabás (Barcelona) - Abraham Zacuto's contribution to navigation
12.20 Edith Sylla (Raleigh) - Mathematics in the Liber de Triplici Motu (1509) of Alvarus Thomas of Lisbon
13.10 End of the morning session
13.30 Lunch
15.30 Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin) - Nunes and Clavius
16.20 Estácio dos Reis (Lisbon) - O nónio de Pedro Nunes
17.10 Coffee break
17.30 V. Navarro-Brotóns (Valência) - Astronomy and Cosmography from 1561 to 1625.
Aspects of the activities of Spanish and Portuguese mathematicians and cosmographers.
18.20 F. Contente Domingues (Lisbon) - O Ensino Náutico na Península Ibérica no Séc. XVI
19.10 End of the afternoon session
20.00 Dinner

November 18
09.30 Ugo Baldini (Roma) - The teaching of mathematics in Jesuit Colleges of Portugal from 1640 to Pombal
10.20 Carlos Ziller (Rio de Janeiro) - José Monteiro da Rocha e a Astronomia dos Cometas
11.10 Coffee break
11.30 João Queiró (Coimbra) - José Anastácio da Cunha: an assessment
12.20 Patricia Radelet de Grave (Louvain) - Nécessité et Contingence dans la Mécanique du XVIIIe siècle, le point de vue de José Anastácio da Cunha
13.10 End of the morning session
13.30 Lunch
15.30 Eduardo Ortiz (London) - Aniceto Monteiro's perception of the practice of Mathematics
16.20 José Francisco Rodrigues (Lisbon)- Portuguese Mathematical Journals: some aspects
17.10 Coffee break
17.30 Round Table
19.00 Closure of the Conference
20.00 Dinner