1st Edition
Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations
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Routledge
This volume, Volume 2, is a supplementary text and consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Volume 1 presents Marggrafe's stunning biography. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the... Read more
Volume 2 - Text edition, PART V - PROGYMNASTICA ASTRONOMICA AMERICANA, TRANSCRIPTION AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MARGGRAFE'S ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE IN COLONIAL DUTCH BRAZIL IN THE YEARS 1638-1643, Introduction, The Paris manuscript: a note about the transcription, A note about the English translation, Transcription and Translation of Marggrafe's astronomical observations in Dutch Brazil.
Biography
Dr. Oscar Matsuura is a retired professor at the University of São Paulo, remaining engaged in several projects, mainly in the History of Astronomy in Brazil. Dr. Huib Zuidervaart, retired senior researcher (2007-2019) at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (KNAW). Former editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal for the History of Science and Universities, Studium. Former book review editor of ISIS, official Journal of the History of Science Society.
