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1. The challenge of a global Earth: Longitude and the Birth of Mathematical Cosmography

Henrique Leitao (CIUHCT, Faculty of Science ERC Project RUTTER University of Lisbon)

Attempts at estimating by astronomical means the longitude of newly discovered lands had an enormous increment in the early sixteenth century. The reason behind these efforts was not navigational safety nor the desire for improved geographical knowledge, but quite more prosaically the ambitions of imperial expansion. In this presentation I will provide an overview of the measurements of...