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DIAS (J.S. da Silva). OS DESCOBRIMENTOS e a Problemática Cultural do Século XVI. Coimbra. 1973. - DIAS (J.S. da Silva) OS DESCOBRIMENTOS e a Problemática Cultural do Século XVI . Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra, 1973. xvi, 412 pp.; 225 mm. First edition of one of the fundamental studies of 20th-century Portuguese cultural history, in which JS da Silva Dias analyzes the impact of the Discoveries on the Portuguese mentality and thought of the 16th century, contrasting the cosmographic and experimental knowledge brought by maritime expansion with the intellectual edifice inherited from Aristotelian-Ptolemaic cosmology and scholastic theology. Part of a broader historiographical project on Portuguese cultural and religious currents of the modern era, which also includes The Cultural Policy of the Era of King John III (1969) and Erasmianism and the Inquisition in Portugal (1975), it constitutes an unavoidable reference in the history of ideas and mentalities in Portugal, reissued in 1982 and 1988, with the present original edition from 1973 now being uncommon on the market. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate