250 Anos da criação da Aula Náutica do Porto

• Autor(a) principal: José Moreira de Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Luís Miguel Bernardo, Marisa Monteiro
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/64528
• topic: Ciências exactas e naturais; Natural sciences

A Nautical Class was created in Porto through royal charter, in the 30th of July of 1762, with the purpose of preparing navigation officers to steer war frigates and merchant ships. The Board of Directors of the General Company of Agriculture of the Upper Douro's Vineyards was responsible for the maintenance of the Nautical Class and for charging the supporting taxes. Pilots coming out of the Nautical Class were part of the crews of the merchant ships that headed towards Brazil or the Baltic Sea. The commercial activity of the latter has enhanced the establishment, in 1787, of a treaty of friendship and commerce between Portugal and Russia. José Monteiro Salazar was, at the time, lecturer of the Nautical Class, also a pilot and a cartographer. Documents related to the Nautical Class are put on display in this exhibition, as well as several nautical instruments, two valuable and unique globes, and a collection of nautical charts first edited in the 17th and 18th centuries.