1. ★V. Bonifácio and I. Malaquias

  2. Portugal and the 1876 South Kensington Instrument Exhibition

  3. Quaderns d'història de l’enginyeria. 2012, vol. XIII, p. 115–131.

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  2. Early astronomical sequential photography, 1873-1923

  3. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 14, n. 3, p. 203–210, 2011.

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  2. O astrónomo amador João de Moraes Pereira e a determinação telegráfica da longitude da cidade da Horta

  3. In O Faial e a Periferia Açoriana nos Séculos XV a XX. Actas do V Colóquio, pages 111–137. Horta: Núcleo Cultural da Horta, 2011.


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  2. The first astronomical hypothesis based upon cinematographical observations: Costa Lobo’s 1912 evidence for polar flatenning of the Moon

  3. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 13, July 2010.

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  2. João de Moraes Pereira (1855-1908): The first Portuguese member of the British Astronomical Association

  3. Jornal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 120, no. 2, 2010.

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  2. An early Troughton & Simms transit circle of Coimbra Astronomical Observatory from the 1850’s: An example of the dissemination of technological developments

  3. Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 330, no. 6, 2009.

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  2. Taking Internal Advantage of External Events - Two Astronomical Examples From Nineteenth Century Portugal Centaurus, vol. 51, 2009.

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  2. Da Astronomia à Astrofísica: A perspectiva portuguesa

  3. PhD thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Física, 2009.

      

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  2. Ernesto Vasconcellos’ Astronomia Photographica: the earliest popular book on astronomical photography?

  3. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 11, July 2008.

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  2. An early Troughton & Simms transit circle with the interior illumination shown at the 1851 Great London Exhibition

  3. Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society, no. 99, 2008.

      

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  2. Solar Photography in the Nineteenth Century: the Case of the Infante D. Luiz Observatory in Lisbon (1871-1880)

  3. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, vol. 10, July 2007.

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  1. ★V. Bonifácio, I. Malaquias, and J. Fernandes

  2. Reacting to external events – solar eclipses as catalysts of the Portuguese astronomical development in the second half of the nineteenth century

  3. in The Global and the Local: The History of Science and the Cultural Integration of Europe, 2nd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Cracow, Poland, September 6-9, 2006 (M. Kokowski, ed.), Cracow: The Press of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007.

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  2. Trying to start up the astrophysics research in Coimbra in the 1870’s. The difficult move from the classroom to the Observatory

  3. in Proceedings of the International Conference in Mathematics, Sciences and Science Education. June 11-14, 2006, Aveiro, Portugal. (A. Breda, R. Duarte, and M. Martins, eds.), pp. 7–15, Universidade de Aveiro, 2006.

      

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  2. The 1870 portuguese solar eclipse expedition - a preliminary report

  3. in Past Meets Present in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Proceedings of the 15th Portuguese National Meeting. Published by World Scientific Publishing Co., Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2006, pp. 89–92, 2006.

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VITOR BONIFÁCIO

Professor Auxiliar

Departamento de Física

Universidade de Aveiro

3810-1930 Aveiro

PORTUGAL

vitor.bonifacio@ua.pt


MEMBER OF

Research Centre “Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers” (CIDTFF).


RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of Science and Education, particularly in the Astronomy and Physics fields.

 

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