Projects

Current projects

• Tycho Brahe in Iberia: The reception, circulation and appropriation of Tychonic cosmology and observational astronomy in the Iberian World, 1572-1758 [individual project, FCT, CEECIND/02607/2017; 2019-2025]

• Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse. A global history of the total solar eclipse of 1919 [FCT, PTDC/FER-HFC/3491/2021; 2022-2024]

In the past I have also participated in several projects supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT):

- No trilho dos instrumentos: Os Gabinetes Reais de Filosofia Natural em Portugal (séculos XVIII-XIX), (PTDC/HIS-HCT/098970/2008), 2010-2012.

- Percurso Científico do Património da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, (HC/0074/2009).

- Abrir caminho à integração da investigação de base documental e material em história da ciência: Preservação, acessibilidade e estudos de caso no Museu de Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa, (PTDC/HCT/64181/2006), 2008-2011.

- Thesaurus de Instrumentos Científicos em Língua Portuguesa, 2006-2011.

Additionally, as a side project, I took part in a case study on the World Heritage of Astronomy:

- Juan Belmonte, Luís Tirapicos, Clive Ruggles, «Seven-stone antas, Portugal and Spain», in Clive Ruggles (ed.), Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention - Thematic Study no. 2 (Bognor Regis/Paris: Ocarina Books/ICOMOS, 2017), 17–39.