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Author:   Luis Ribeiro ,  David Salomoni ,  Henrique Leitão
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
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9789048571062

ISBN 10:   9048571065
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   30 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1. Decoding the Oceans: Rutter–Writing and the Emergence of the Oceanic Rutters as a New Textual Genre - Luana Giurgevich Chapter 2. Sixteenth-Century Nautical Treatises: The Definition of a New Genre of Technical Literature - Carmo Lacerda Chapter 3. Monitoring the Paths of the Sea: Rutters, Laws and Long-Distance Control in Sixteenth-Century Iberian Empires - José Maria Moreno Madrid Chapter 4. Traveling with and Updating “Secret” Knowledge: Van Linschoten and the Iberian Nautical Rutters (1583–1596) - Nuno Vila-Santa Chapter 5. The New Pathways of Knowledge: The Early Modern Iberian Oceanic Rutters and the Emergence of a Global Knowledge Society - Fabiano Bracht Chapter 6. The Problem of Relational Cardinality, the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic, and the Making of the Globe - Luis Lobo-Guerrero Chapter 7. Precious Art or Tried and Tested Science: Early Modern Indian Ocean Navigation in Context - Juan Acevedo Chapter 8. From the Anecdote to the Report: Indian Ocean Pilots in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Literature - Inês Bénard Chapter 9. The Poetics of Distance in the Early Modern European Imaginary - Joana Lima References Index

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Luís Campos Ribeiro is a historian of science and art and a researcher at CIUHCT, University of Lisbon, specializing in the history of astrology and astronomy. He leads the Astra Project: Historical Research on Astrological Techniques and Practices (CIUHCT/The Warburg Institute) and is a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC Rutter Project. David Salomoni is an assistant professor in the History of Education at the University for Foreigners of Siena. From 2019 until 2023, he worked in the framework of the ERC Rutter Project based at the University of Lisbon. His research focuses on geographical literacy in Early Modern Europe. Henrique Leitão is a Senior Researcher at the Department for the History and Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is presently Provost (Pro-reitor) of the University of Lisbon and director of the Lisbon University Press. In 2018, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant (Rutter Project).

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