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Last Name Couto

Given Name José Vieira

alt. Names J. V. C. ;

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Year born 1752 in Portugal

Year died 1827

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Education studies natural sciences & mathematics (Filosofia natural & matématica) at Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal; graduation in 1778

Country of Activity Brazil

Worked for mineralogical expeditions in the area of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1798-1805: Memória sobre a Capitania das Minas Gerais ; Seu território, clima e produções metálicas (1799) ;

Patronage Portugese minister Dom Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho, who sent J. V. C. to Minas Gerais in 1797 ;

Collaborators mineralogist and explorer Joao Manso Pereira (c. 1750-1820) ;

Techniques mineralogical, geological, geographical, and anthropological drawing

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Archival sources http://www.ghtc.usp.br/server/Lusodat/pri/12/pri12715.htm

Published sources C. P. da Silva: Una contribuicao para a divulgacao da memoria cientifica do Brasil, in: Revista tecnica 6, 6 (2006): 76-9 ; Patrick Wyse Jackson: Four Centuries of Geological Travel. Search for Knowledge on Foot (London 2006: 306) ;

other Further Place of Activity: Portugal.

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