The Astronomer/Instrument Maker Campos Rodrigues and the Contribution of the Observatory of Lisbon for the 1900-1901 Solar Parallax Programme

Raposo, Pedro M. P.

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“…to every task by the sub-director, Oom. 20 This was the case during the 1892 Mars opposition and 1900-1 Eros observational campaigns respectively launched and coordinated by the US Naval Observatory in Washington and the Paris Observatory. Despite ' very modest instruments ', the ' remarkable accuracy ' of the observations of reference stars made during the Eros campaign led to the award of the 1904 Valz prize to Campos Rodrigues.…”

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Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers (1917–25)

2008

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Among various case studies addressing the reception of relativity, very few deal with Portugal at either the international or the national level. The national literature on the topic has mainly concentrated on the reactions to relativity of the Portuguese mathematical community. The absence of Portuguese astronomers alongside Eddington during the 1919 expedition to Principe, then a Portuguese island, has been implicitly equated with the astronomical community's lack of interest in the event. In reception studies dealing with general relativity, analysis has tended to focus on the physics and mathematics communities, less on the astronomers. Given that relativity was born at the interface of physics, mathematics and astronomy, reactions of members of these scientific communities depended on differences in shared traditions, values, problems and expectations, as well as on individual practitioners' idiosyncrasies. This paper addresses the contributions of the overlooked Portuguese astronomical community, evaluates the actions and reactions of its members to the expedition and assesses their role in the process of appropriation of relativity.

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Section: The Portuguese Astronomical Context and The Portuguese Astromentioning

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Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers (1917–25)

2008

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Physical Sciences in Lisbon

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Riding the Wave to Reach the Masses: Natural Events in Early Twentieth Century Portuguese Daily Press

2010

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This paper brings together science communicated in newspapers in Portugal by looking at how news on natural events were communicated in two different newspapersthe capital newspaper Dia´rio de Notı´cias (Daily News) and the Dia´rio dos Açores (Azores Daily). In particular, we look at how the 1900 solar eclipse, a hot topic throughout Europe, was reported by the capital newspaper, and how news on seismology were conveyed in the period 1907-1910 in the newspaper published in Azores, an archipelago with a significant seismic and volcanic activity. We argue that the importance conceded to these scientific news was related to their overwhelming features, that their dissimilar presentation stemmed from their local relevance allied to their different nature, predictable in the case of eclipses, and unpredictable in the case of earthquakes, and that behind these two instances of science journalism laid an attempt by the scientific and political communities to gain the support of the general public to such an extent that these two specific instances of science journalism transcended their usual features to become successful forms of expository science.

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The Astronomer/Instrument Maker Campos Rodrigues and the Contribution of the Observatory of Lisbon for the 1900-1901 Solar Parallax Programme

Cited by 3 publications

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Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers (1917–25)

Einstein in Portugal: Eddington's expedition to Principe and the reactions of Portuguese astronomers (1917–25)

Physical Sciences in Lisbon

Riding the Wave to Reach the Masses: Natural Events in Early Twentieth Century Portuguese Daily Press

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