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Joaquim Alves Gaspar Print E-mail
Post-doc researcher, CIUHCT. ISEGI/UNL.
alvesgaspar(at)netcabo.pt

Research interests

  • History of Cartography
  • History of Nautical Science
  • Cartometric analysis and modeling of early maps

Projects

  • "Estudo da cartografia náutica portuguesa dos séculos XV e seguintes: uma abordagem multidisciplinar" , post-doc research project, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCT SFRH/BPD/69715/2010), 2010-2013

Publications (selection)

  1. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, From the Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean to the Latitude Chart of the Atlantic: Cartometric Analysis and Modeling. Lisboa: doctoral thesis (ISEGI/UNL), 2010.
  2. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "From the Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean to the Latitude Chart of the Atlantic: Cartometric Analysis and Modeling", in Baigent, Elisabeth (ed.) (2010) – ‘Doctoral Thesis in Progress’, Imago Mundi, 62:1, 119-122 , 2010. [http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a917293801~db=all~jumptype=rss]
  3. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "Revisitando a cartografia náutica portuguesa antiga do Atlântico: uma análise quantitativa", in Actas III Simpósio Luso-Brasileiro de Cartografia Histórica, Ouro Preto, Brazil, 2009. [http://www.ufmg.br/rededemuseus/crch/gaspar_revisitando-a-cartografia-nautica-portuguesa-antiga-do-atlantico.pdf]
  4. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "Dead reckoning and magnetic declination: unveiling the mystery of portolan charts", e-Perimetron, Vol. 3 No. 4, p. 191-203, 2008. [http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_3_4/Vol3_4.htm]
  5. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Dicionário de Ciências Cartográficas, 2.ª edição. Lisboa: Lidel – Edições Técnicas, 2008.
  6. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "The Myth of the Square Chart", e-Perimetron, Vol. 2 No. 2, p. 66-79, 2007. [http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_2_2/Gaspar.pdf]
  7. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Cartas e Projecções Cartográficas, 3.ª edição. Lisboa: Lidel – Edições Técnicas, 2005.
  8. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "António Barbosa and the myth of the square chart", in Proceedings XIV International Reunion for the History of Nautical Science, Coimbra, 2008 [forthcoming].
  9. Joaquim Alves Gaspar, "Prime Meridian", in Monmonier, Mark (ed.) – The History of Cartography, Volume Six: Cartography in the Twentieth Century [forthcoming].

Scientific Societies and other institutions

  • International Cartographic Association – member of the Commission “Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage”, since 2006