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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Autor principal:	Raposo, Pedro M.P.
Formato:	Artigo
Lenguaje:	Inglês
Publicado:	Nantes Université 2017
Materias:	histoire politique histoire institutionnelle Portugal observatoires météorologie sciences coloniales
Acceso en línea:	https://doi.org/10.4000/cahierscfv.779 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/devl https://journals.openedition.org/cahierscfv/779
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