Formas da Terra - Suas Implicações desde a Grécia Antiga até as Grandes Navegações.

Professor Vieira draws a parallel between the history of Geodesy and Cartography and the history of some Western European peoples, Arabs and Jews. He emphasizes how the knowledge of Geodesy, Astronomy and Cartography of the ancient Greeks contributed to the great navigations of the Portuguese. History of Geodesy. History of Cartography. Nautical Chart. Portolan Chart. Eratosthenes. Flat Earth. Size of the Spherical Earth. Eratosthenes' Projection. Ptolemy's Conical Projection. Treaty of Tordesillas. Cross-staff. Astrolabe. Great Navigations.