O Instituto de Coimbra e a análise química de águas minerais em Portugal na segunda metade do século XIX

Abstract

THE INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA AND THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF MINERAL WATERS IN PORTUGAL IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. O Instituto, journal published by the Institute of Coimbra (IC), an academic society founded in this city in 1852, contains many articles on hydrology and chemical analysis of water for human consumption, written by well-known Portuguese chemists and physicians. Based on these papers, we analyse the evolution of hydrology in Portugal throughout the second half of the 19th century, with emphasis on the chemical studies of mineral waters by the physicians Augusto da Costa Simões, Francisco Alves and José Epifânio Marques, and by the chemists Joaquim dos Santos e Silva, António Ferreira da Silva and Charles Lepierre, all of them members of the IC.