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Gago Coutinho and the Scientific Navigation

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dc.contributor.authorSilva, André
dc.contributor.authorBarata, Jorge M M
dc.contributor.authorNeves, Fernando M. S. P.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-07T11:35:58Z
dc.date.available2022-01-07T11:35:58Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-27
dc.description.abstractGago Coutinho, jointly with another Portuguese aerial navigator, managed to perform the First Flight from Europe to the South Atlantic in 1922, a Journey exclusively guided by internal means of navigation. Despite Coutinho being a person with multi-purpose activity on several areas of knowledge, he became known and glorified in the World in 1922, as an air navigator, a position that he achieved due to an aerial navigation device that he also had invented. Coutinho developed a new sextant model that could be used to measure the altitude of a star (when flying overseas) without the need of the sea horizon. This new device was called precision sextant and was provided with an artificial horizon line defined with the help of a water bubble. Due to his knowledge of Navigation, Astronomy, Geography and Mathematics, Coutinho received from the Portuguese King D. Carlos I, several assignments at Africa and Asia. Gago Coutinho received several important official medals and prizes, including the Ph.D. Honoris Causa from the Universities of Lisbon and Oporto and authored several scientific publications. Coutinho received the distinct position of Admiral of the Portuguese Navy in 1958 and died in the following year.pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiapt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationSilva, A. , Barata, J. and Neves, F. (2016) Gago Coutinho and the Scientific Navigation. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 6, 751-769. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2016.610067.pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.4236/ojapps.2016.610067pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2165-3917
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/11569
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherScientific Research Publishingpt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://www.scirp.org/pdf/OJAppS_2016092715105564.pdfpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectGago Coutinhopt_PT
dc.subjectSouth Atlantic Aerial Crossingpt_PT
dc.subjectPrecision Sextantpt_PT
dc.subjectCircumnavigation Flight Attemptpt_PT
dc.titleGago Coutinho and the Scientific Navigationpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.startPage751pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleOpen Journal of Applied Sciencespt_PT
oaire.citation.volume06pt_PT
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person.familyNameSilva Pereira das Neves
person.givenNameAndré
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