Research interests

• Observatories and observatory sciences (astronomy, geophysics, etc.);
• Science, empire and colonialism;
• Networks and circulation: theoretical and historiographical aspects;
• Science and the military;
• Scientific biography.

Projects

• "Regimes, saberes e mobilidade: as redes científicas e as missões internacionais no desenvolvimento da ciência em Portugal da Regeneração à Primeira República (1851-1926)" [Political regimes, knowledge and mobility: scientific networks and international missions in the development of science in Portugal, from the Regeneration to the First Republic]. Post-doc project SFRH/BPD/73373/2010, sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

Publications (selection)

1. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Time, weather and empire(s): the Campos Rodrigues Observatory in Mozambique (1905-1905)", Annals of Science (forthcoming).
2. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "The quest for stellar parallax in the nineteenth century, the ‘astronomical capital of the world’ and the foundation of the Observatory of Lisbon" in Luís Saraiva (ed.), History of Astronomy in Portugal. Institutions, Theories, Practices(forthcoming).
3. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Estrelas, precisão e progresso: as origens do Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa", Anais do Clube Militar Naval (forthcoming).
4. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "O Império e o Tempo: Notas Para uma Abordagem à História dos Observatórios Coloniais Portugueses", in Maria Paula Diogo, Isabel Maria Amaral (eds.), A Outra Face do Império: ciência, tecnologia e medicina (sécs. XIX-XX), (Lisboa: Edições Colibri, 2012), pp. 17-29.
5. Pedro M. P. Raposo,"Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa: um observatório nacional na Universidade", in Marta C Lourenço, Maria João Neto (eds.), Património da Universidade de Lisboa: Ciência e Arte, (Lisboa: Universidade de Lisboa/Tinta da China, 2011), pp. 99-105.
6. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "The material culture of nineteenth-century astrometry, its circulation and its heritage at the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon', in Gudrun Wolfschmidt (ed.), Cultural Heritage of Astronomical Observatories - From Classical Astronomy to Modern Astrophysics, (Berlin: ICOMOS, 2009), pp. 99-113.
7. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Charming tools of a demanding trade: the heritage of nineteenth-century astrometry at the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon", Rittenhouse - The Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise 22 (2008): 25-46.
8. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "The astronomer/instrument maker Campos Rodrigues and the contribution of the Observatory of Lisbon for the 1900-1901 solar parallax programme", in José Afonso, Nuno Santos, Rui Agostinho, André Moitinho (eds.) 2005: Past meets Present in Astronomy and Astrophysics – Proceedings of the 15th Portuguese National Meeting (World Scientific Press, 2006), pp. 97-100.
9. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Down-to-Earth solutions for celestial purposes: remarks on the life and works of the astronomer/instrument maker Campos Rodrigues (1836-1919)", in Bart Grob, Hans Hooijmaijers (eds.), Who Needs Scientific Instruments: Conference on Scientific Instruments and Their Users, 20-22 October 2005 (Leiden: Museum Boerhaave, 2006), pp. 203-206.
10. Pedro M. P. Raposo, "Campos Rodrigues: das rotas marítimas ao grande oceano cósmico", Anais do Clube Militar Naval, CXXXIV (2005): 823-848.