{"id":1958,"date":"2014-10-22T14:36:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2015-01-18T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:10:57","slug":"new-issue-of-hcs-manguinhos-oceans-and-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/new-issue-of-hcs-manguinhos-oceans-and-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Oceans and seas: history, science, policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Vasco da Gama Aquarium, Lisbon, Portugal.<\/p><\/div>\n

The new issue of HCS- Manguinhos “Oceans and seas: history, science, policy” is fully available in SciELO. This edition features eleven articles ranging \u00a0from reports written by the captain Robert FitzRoy<\/a>, from HMS Beagle, during his trip in Brazil, to the myth of the Kraken, a “monster” that haunted sailors between Norway, Iceland and Greenland.<\/p>\n

This issue starts with an article about the german scientist\u00a0Hermann von Ihering<\/a>, who arrived in \u00a0Brasil in 1880. This paper covers his \u00a0his theories on land bridges, which would connect South America and Africa.\u00a0The authors emphasize the social and scientific networks built by Von Ihering, who published a book about the history of the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.<\/p>\n

The article about the writings of\u00a0Robert FitzRoy<\/a>\u00a0shows\u00a0impressions of the HMS Beagle commander about the Brazilian cities he visited between 1828 and 1839, such as Rio de Janeiro e Salvador. These reports, far less known than those of \u00a0Charles Darwin, who traveled in the the same vessel, show enthusiasm with tropical landscapes and also criticize its inhabitants, described by Fitz Roy as inefficient and culturally backward.<\/p>\n

Written by Brazilian researchers working in Germany and the Netherlands, the text The Kraken: when myth encounter science<\/a> talks about the figure of the Kraken, \u00a0described as a sea monster in a manuscript of 1180. \u00a0With more than 18 meters, the creature haunted North European sailors and were later identified as giant squids. \u00a0The paper investigates the role that the\u00a0Architeuthis \u00a0(scientific name of this animal)\u00a0still plays in mythology and science.<\/p>\n

The article,\u00a0<\/em>The astrolab, the sea and the empire<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>analyzes writings by Portuguese cosmographers between the 16th and 18th centuries to demonstrate the technical and scientific bases which allowed European maritime expansion. Another paper is about the constitution of aquariums\u00a0<\/a>over time, focusing on the educational role these places have played in recent years.<\/p>\n

<\/em>This issue also\u00a0\u00a0features two articles on marine studies in a Portuguese context. The first deals with institutions and\u00a0 research about the sea<\/a>\u00a0in Portugal in the 20th century. The other addresses the oceanographic practice and the iconographic collection of the king dom Carlos I<\/a>. In this issue, there are also essays discussing other topics, such as the study of the Argentine marine fauna \u00a0between 1890 and 1930<\/a>; the studies of American geologist John Casper Branner<\/a> in the northeastern Brazilian coast; \u00a0the Oceanographic Institute of the S\u00e3o Paulo University;<\/a> and \u00a0a study on Brazilian marine biodiversity.<\/p>\n

The Images section discusses the role of underwater photography<\/a> in the research on marine life. The essay describes the experience of North-Americans and Europeans, and particularly the experiences undertaken by biologists Boutan Louis and Jacob Reighard in a study conducted between 1890 and 1910. The Sources section discusses the research of the biologist Jos\u00e9phine Schouteden- W\u00e9ry <\/a>on the Belgian coast. She \u00a0was several times \u00a0in Congo, doing field work, \u00a0and played a prominent role in the Union des Femmes Coloniales.<\/p>\n

Read the guest editor’s note<\/a>, from Alda Heizer, Maria Margaret Lopes and Susana Garc\u00eda
\nSee the summary<\/a> of this issue.
\nSee “Argentina and the sea<\/a>,” Interview with Susana V. Garc\u00eda about her article “Commercial fishing and the study of marine fauna in Argentina, 1980, 1930<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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