Studies in the Portuguese Discoveries 1

Tom F Earle is Director of Portuguese Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of two books about another great sixteenth century Portuguese, Antonio Ferreira.

• Prine Henry and the necessary end, P.E. Russell; the Portuguese in the Maldive Islands, John Villiers; mixed race groups in the early history of Portuguses expansion, Malyn Newitt; Portuguese shipbuilding - from Genoa to Goa via geometry, Richard Barker; a consequence of discovery - astronomical navigation in 15th-century Portugal, Francis Maddison; the computer analysis of Joao de Barros' Asia, Stephen Parkinson.