Vitor Bonifácio
Biographic Data
| ID | 6095281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vitor Bonifácio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vitor |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonifácio |
| SIGNATURE | BONIFACIO V |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7412-6704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Carlos Bettencourt Faria’s Dream
Mulemba Astronomical Observatory, later known as the Mulemba Space Centre was founded in 1958 on Luanda’s outskirts in Angola, then an African Portuguese colony, by the polymath Carlos Mar Bettencourt Faria. Being, from all accounts, a charming and knowledgeable individual who was mainly self taught, he managed to build several radio telescopes, a solar observing station, a state-of-the-art electronics laboratory and a satellite tracking facility…
A Singular Novel—Amaral's 1886 Os habitantes do planeto Saturno [The Inhabitants of the Planet Saturn]
Os habitantes do planeta Saturno [The Inhabitants of the Planet Saturn] by the mysterious nineteenth-century Portuguese author António Peixoto do Amaral may be the first fully realized work of sf in Portuguese. Published in 1886, it shows a clear debt to Jules Verne's interplanetary voyage extraordinaire, Hector Servadac (1877), but it also includes elements specific to the contemporary Portuguese cultural context such as the promotion of a Catho…
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A Singular Novel—Amaral's 1886 Os habitantes do planeto Saturno [The Inhabitants of the Planet Saturn]
Os habitantes do planeta Saturno [The Inhabitants of the Planet Saturn] by the mysterious nineteenth-century Portuguese author António Peixoto do Amaral may be the first fully realized work of sf in Portuguese. Published in 1886, it shows a clear debt to Jules Verne's interplanetary voyage extraordinaire, Hector Servadac (1877), but it also includes elements specific to the contemporary Portuguese cultural context such as the promotion of a Catho…
Carlos Bettencourt Faria’s Dream
Mulemba Astronomical Observatory, later known as the Mulemba Space Centre was founded in 1958 on Luanda’s outskirts in Angola, then an African Portuguese colony, by the polymath Carlos Mar Bettencourt Faria. Being, from all accounts, a charming and knowledgeable individual who was mainly self taught, he managed to build several radio telescopes, a solar observing station, a state-of-the-art electronics laboratory and a satellite tracking facility…
Astronomy (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work) · Aviation History and Innovations (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Context (archaeology) (1 work) · Dream (1 work) · Geology (1 work)