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HISTÓRIA e Desenvolvimento da Ciência em Portugal até ao Século XX. Lisboa. 1986. - HISTÓRIA e Desenvolvimento da Ciência em Portugal até ao Século XX . Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 1986. 2 v.; 255 mm. Proceedings of the 1st Colloquium on the History and Development of Science in Portugal, included in the Publications of the 2nd Centenary of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, in two volumes. It brings together a vast collection of studies by academics and researchers on the evolution of various scientific disciplines in Portugal up to the end of the 19th century: mathematics, astronomy and navigation, botany, chemistry, medicine and pharmacy, anthropology, among others. Contributions include studies on commercial arithmetic in the 16th and 17th centuries, the history of Portuguese botany, Garcia de Orta and Amato Lusitano, Vicente de Seabra and the chemical revolution, and Portuguese pharmacopoeias. It continued with the II Colloquium, dedicated to the 20th century, the proceedings of which were published in three volumes in 1992. A seminal work on the history of science in Portugal. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate