The Portuguese Association for the Advancement of Science (1917-1974: a historical review

• Autor(a) principal: Brandão, Tiago
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Rollo, Maria Fernanda, Queiroz, Maria Inês
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/44539
• topic: Associação Portuguesa para o Progresso das Ciências; Instituições Científicas; Sociedades Científicas; Políticas Científicas; Relações Luso-Espanholas; Diplomacia Científica; História da Ciência; Portuguese Association for the Advancement of Science; congeners; scientific societies and associations; science policies; portuguese and spanish relations; science diplomacy; history of science.; Asociación Portuguesa para el Progreso de las Ciencias; congéneres; sociedades científicas; políticas científicas; relaciones portugués-español; diplomacia científica; historia de la ciencia.

The Portuguese Association for the Progress of Sciences (APPC), created in 1917 on the initiative of Francisco da Costa Lobo, professor at the University of Coimbra, and with the support of the Catalan astronomer Ricardo Cirera, was directly inspired by the Spanish Association for the Progress of Sciences. The Spanish association had been set up in 1908, organising biennial congresses that brought together various scientific fields, which in turn were divided into sections, in na attempt to bring together the various areas and promote the dissemination and development of scientific knowledge. Through the new Portuguese association, the Portuguese participation in the congresses of the Spanish association was then formalised, leading to the organisation of joint meetings from 1921 onwards – the “Portuguese-Spanish Congresses for the Progress of Sciences – whose activity would continue until the 1970s. It is the recovery of the trajectory of this institution, delve in integrated and global manner and interpreted in the contexto of the general history of Luso-Spanish relations, that we intend to address in this historical and historiographical study.