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in 1779. He delivered the controversial inaugural address at the Academy's first formal session, on 4 July 1780, in which he compared the country's backwardness in scientific matters to that of the
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in the mid-century, which stressed realism as well as the utility of poetry. He shared a concern about the
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Almeida is noted for his popularisation of the experimental sciences through his ten-volume
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Like the rest of the Portuguese elites, Almeida was horrified by the worst excesses of the
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History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century
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As a writer, Almeida was influenced by the literary currents of the
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Recreação Filosófica ou Diálogo sobre a Filosofia Natural
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The Reverend
Cong. Orat.
FRS

Lisbon
Portugal
Lisbon
Portugal
C.O.
FRS
Catholic
Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri
Portuguese Enlightenment
natural philosophy
Enlightenment
reason
scientific method
natural philosophy
religious orthodoxy
appeals to authority
Royal Society
Arcádia Lusitana
melancholia
Marquise of Alorna
Bocage
enlightened despotic
Marquis of Pombal
Porto
Spain
France

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