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Henrique Leitão Editor

Thomas Horst studied History and Anthropology at the Universities of Munich and Vienna. He holds a postdoc fellowship on Maps, Globes and Texts: Cosmographical knowledge in early Modern Europe at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), University of Lisbon.

Marília dos Santos Lopes teaches History and Culture Studies at the School of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), Portugal, and Senior Fellow at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Her research focuses on intercultural processes, on visual culture, and on the history of knowledge exchange in early modern Europe.

Henrique Leitão is Senior Researcher at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) and Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. His research focuses on the history of sciences, the history of cartography as well as the history of scientific books and libraries.