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CHAGAS (Manuel Pinheiro). OS DESCOBRIMENTOS Portuguezes e os de Colombo: Tentativa de Coordenação histórica. Lisboa. 1892. - CHAGAS (Manuel Pinheiro) OS DESCOBRIMENTOS Portuguezes e os de Colombo: Tentativa de Coordenação histórica . Lisboa: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1892. 244 pp.; 225 mm. A historical synthesis study on the Portuguese discoveries and the voyage of Christopher Columbus, written on the occasion of the fourth centenary of Columbus's arrival in America (1892) and presented, in a summarized version, at the Congress of Americanists held in Huelva that same year. In ten chapters, it traces the genesis of Portuguese maritime expansion from Prince Henry the Navigator to the voyages of Gaspar Corte-Real, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan, seeking to situate Columbus's voyage within the broader context of Iberian discoveries, paying particular attention to the Azorean and Madeiran antecedents, the relationship between Columbus and King John II, and the Treaty of Tordesillas. A work of historiographical synthesis representative of the fin-de-siècle debate on the priority and significance of the Portuguese discoveries in relation to the Columbus enterprise. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate