Article Nº 1873 Association, club or society Vol. II · p. 327
Philosophical and Mechanical Institution
Original title: Instituição Filosófica e Mecânica
A short-lived learned society founded in Funchal in 1840 to carry out scientific studies of Madeira. One of its members, the military engineer António Pedro de Azevedo, published a translation of James Smith's memoir on Madeiran geology.
Under this title a society was founded in Funchal in 1840 with the aim of carrying out scientific studies of Madeira. The society was short-lived; one of its members, the military engineer António Pedro de Azevedo, published in the Flor do Oceano a translation of James Smith’s memoir on Madeiran geology.
People mentioned
- António Pedro de Azevedo 1814–1889
- James Smith
Places mentioned