VEIGA (Pe. Eusebio da). PLANETARIO Lusitano, Explicado com Problemas, e Exemplos Praticos [...]. Lisboa. 1758.

VEIGA (Pe. Eusebio da). PLANETARIO Lusitano, Explicado com Problemas, e Exemplos Praticos [...]. Lisboa. 1758.
VEIGA (Pe. Eusebio da)
PLANETARIO Lusitano, Explicado com Problemas, e Exemplos Praticos [...]. Lisboa: Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1758.

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Father Eusébio da Veiga (1717-1798), religious of the Society of Jesus, notable mathematician and astronomer. Entering the novitiate in 173, he taught Human Literature at the College of Santo Antão in Lisbon, where he also taught Mathematics in the famous Aula da Esfera, and directed the observatory of that college. His name is linked to the publication in Portugal of the first regular and methodical astronomical ephemeris. In 1755, he had already prepared the calculations to publish them, but they were lost in the great earthquake. They then came out in 1758, calculated for the following three years, in this work of his that was dubbed by the Chief Cosmographer of the Kingdom, Luís Francisco Pimentel, as “an excellent compendium of all astronomy, in which it is exposed in learned and instructive documents, as there is nothing more useful and delightful in the mathematical sciences. Pombal's persecution prohibited the illustrious astronomer from continuing his activity in Portugal. Arrested in 1758, in September of that year he was exiled to Italy. In Rome, he edited nine volumes of Ephemerides and the Duke of Sermonea e S. Marcos chose him to direct his astronomical observatory that he had installed in his own palace. After the extinction of the Society of Jesus, the Marquis of Lafões had him appointed rector of the Hospício dos Portugueses and there he died. Rare and treasured.

¶ Inocêncio, v.2, p. 247