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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Inês Noronha Bénard da Costa

Citation names

  • Bénard, Inês

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
471D-E91F-44A8
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5358-3551

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 961792542 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua Francisco Sanches, 2, 1170-143, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Arab Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Latin Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1)
Ancient Greek (until 1553) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/11/01 - 2025/11/01
Ongoing
História e Filosofia das Ciências (Doutoramento)
Major in História das Ciências
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/10/15
Concluded
História e Filosofia das Ciências (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"A ciência árabe na Europa renascentista: a tradição hay’a e a astronomia europeia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18 valores
2013/09/15 - 2016/07/13
Concluded
Estudos Gerais (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
14
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/11/04 - Current Making the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Construction of a Global Concept of the Earth
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/833438/EU
Other
European Commission
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Exhibition catalog
  1. Acevedo, Juan; Bénard, Inês. Ahmad Ibn Majid. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Eric Staples; Acevedo, Juan; Bénard, Inês. "AL-MAHRI’S MIR¿AT AL-SALAK LI-KURAT AL-AFLAK: A 16TH-CENTURY YEMENI NAVIGATOR’S REFLECTIONS ON ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE". Nouvelles Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 16 35 (2023): 96-120. http://www.cdmy.org/cmy/ncmy16_35.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Magazine article
  1. Bénard, Inês. "Par-de-TusI: entre a astronomia Árabe e a Coperniciana", Gazeta de Matemática, 2020, https://gazeta.spm.pt/fichagazeta?id=192.
Online resource
  1. Bénard, Inês; Acevedo, Juan. The Stars of Indian Ocean Arab Navigation. 2021. https://rutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/acevedo_benard_tn8.pdf.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.14758605
Preprint
  1. Acevedo, Juan; Bénard, Inês. Corresponding author: Acevedo, Juan. "The Stars of Indian Ocean Arab Navigation". 2021. https://rutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/acevedo_benard_tn8.pdf.
    10.6084/m9.figshare.14758605

Other

Other output
  1. Indian Ocean Arab Navigation Studies Towards a Global Perspective: Annotated Bibliography and Research Roadmap. 2020. Bénard, Inês. https://figshare.com/articles/Indian_Ocean_Arab_Navigation_Studies_Towards_a_Global_Perspective_Annotated_Bibliography_and_Research_Roadmap/12389855/1.
    10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.12389855.V1
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/02/07 From the Anecdote to the written report: Indian Ocean Navigators in 16-century Portuguese Literature Research Seminar
Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (Londres, United Kingdom)
2023/06/23 Understanding sections of the Umda Early Modern Seminar
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Centro Interuniversitário de História da Ciência e Tecnologia (CIUHCT) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/06 Circles of Sciences and the RUTTER Project discussed Manuscripts in a Digital Age
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian; Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/05/04 Al-Mahri's "Conclusions" on Ratio et Ars: Insights from a 16th-century Arab Pilot CIVIS, European Renaissance, Other Renaissances
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2023/05 The Role of Early Modern Sea Pilots in Circulation of Knowledge Actors, Lives and Networks: Biographies in the Global Circulation of Knoweldge
Queen Mary, University of London (Londres, United Kingdom)
2023/03 Sailing Between Two Practices: Shared Knowledge in Portuguese and Arabic Sources BSHS Postgraduate Conference
University of Oxford; British Society for the History of Science (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2022/11 The Zodiac and the Lunar Mansions: Two Celestial Reference Systems in Comparison Hi-Phi Seminar: Universalism in Science, the case of two celestial reference systems
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/07 Telling Time and Space: The Zam in Indian Ocean Navigation When the Stars Tell Time
(Frankfurt, Germany)
2022/06 Circulating Knowledge: Arabic Texts in Portuguese Maritime Literature 8th International Conference of Maritime History
Universidade do Porto; International Maritime History Association (Porto, Portugal)
2022/01/25 The Status of Pilots in Comparison: Arabic, Indian, and European Craftsmen, Scientists, Experts? Sailing the Early Modern Indian Ocean: Texts and Practices in Contact
ERC RUTTER project; Ciuhct; University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/12/01 From the Anecdote to the Report in Maritime East-West Encounters 55th MESA annual meeting
Middle East Studies Association of North America (Tucson, United States)
2021/08/28 Lunar mansions in 15th-century navigation of the Indian Ocean”. Presented at the international workshop Equating the Heavens: Astronomical Practice, Computation, and Instruments of Planetary Theory in Early Modern Europe
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel; Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon; Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Kassel; Dresden, Germany)
2021/07/11 The Stars in Sixteenth-Century Nautical Literature: A Comparative Study 54th Seminar for Arabian Studies
The International Association for the Study of Arabia (Durham, United Kingdom)
2019/06/01 O modelo de Mercúrio de Ibn al-Sha¿ir em Copérnico 32º Encontro do Seminário nacional de história da matemática
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática (Marco de Canaveses , Portugal)
2019/05/23 Os mecanismos e modelos árabes em Copérnico Seminário Permanente de Astronomia Antiga
CIUHCT (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/01/24 - 2022/01/25 International workshop on history of Indian Ocean navigation with the title "Sailing the Early Modern Indian Ocean: Texts and Practices in Contact" (2022/01/24 - 2022/01/25)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/04/27 - Current Arabic Philosophy reading group
Other
Arabic Philosophy Reading Group
University of London School of Advanced Study Warburg Institute, United Kingdom
2020/02/01 - Current Reading Kitab al-Fawa¿id, by Ibn Majid in an Arabic manuscript
Other
Arabic Science & Philosophy Readings
Universidade de Lisboa Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2021/08/28 - 2021/08/28 International workshop on history of science with the title "Equating the Heavens"
Workshop
Equating the Heavens: Astronomical Practice, Computation, and Instruments of Planetary Theory in Early Modern Europe
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Germany

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
2019/03/16 - 2019/03/20 Participação em debates em árabe
Call
World Championship of Arabic Debates
QatarDebate, Qatar
2019/01/03 - 2019/01/05 Participação em debates em árabe
Call
European Championship of Arabic Debates
QatarDebate, Qatar

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/10/10 - 2023/12/10 As responsabilidades do trabalho incluíram: Produzir um texto árabe digital do texto de navegação de Sulayman al-Mahri, no século XVI, al-Umda al-Mahriyya com notas de rodapé relativas a comparação de manuscritos; coordenar com o IP e investigadores em Portugal, Reino Unido e Emiratos para conseguir uma versão inicial do sétimo capítulo da obra para criar um mapa digital; Rever e produzir um relatório na versão do mapa digital actual, produzido para o projecto. Zayed University - Abu Dhabi Campus, United Arab Emirates
2023/01 - 2023/10 Co-curadora na exposição: Poder da Palavra V: A Oferta ao Imperador Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal