PEREIRA (José Maria Dantas).
Escritos de José Maria Dantas Pereira. Parte I. escritos maritimos volume I. que contem a seccáo I. da parte I. ou memorias sobre a tactica e hum systema de signaes.
Comprising three treatises on naval tactics, with a schematic drawing at the end showing the positions of ships in combat formations.
José Maria Dantas Pereira (1772-1836) was a councillor of the Portuguese Admiralty, and commander of the Guardas-Marinhas. He was also a phenomenal virtuoso mathematician, and whilst still completing his naval training at the Academia Real das Ciéncias de Lisbon, he was appointed a professor of mathematics, and also asked to tutor the Infante D. Pedro Carlos. He left for Brazil around 1807, and by 1817 was commander of the fleet.
WorldCat locates four copies, at the American Philosophical Society, the University of Iowa, the State Library of Berlin and the BNF. Also in the BNP.
Not in Palau; Camargo, A.M. de A. Bibliografia da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1822, 1, 491.
