Materials and production methods in 17th century portuguese illuminated cartography: a study of the maps in António Bocarro's "Book of the Plans of all Fortresses, Towns and Villages of the East Indies"
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Abstract
This thesis presents an interdisciplinary, multianalytical investigation of the early 17th-century illuminated maps of Pedro Baretto de Resende in the Antonio Bocarro’s Livro das plantas de todas as fortalezas, a codex made in Goa and currently housed at the Biblioteca Pública de Évora in Portugal. The work addresses previously unexplored aspects of the maps, including issues of authorship, the possibility of cross-cultural collaboration during their production, and the way their design and use of map signs depict late-stage empire. Using technical photography, FORS, h-XRF, Raman microscopy, μ-FT-IR, LC-DAD-MS, and vp-SEM-EDS, the maps’ materials and production methods were revealed and contextualized. The results are relevant to research concerning the connections between decorative cartography, economic and social history, and fine art. In addition, the findings contribute to the small but growing literature on the material characteristics of cartographic works. Finally, the work suggests a more holistic approach to the study of maps; RESUMO: Nesta tese é apresentada uma investigação interdisciplinar e multi-analítica dos mapas iluminados datados do início do século XVII de Pedro Baretto Resende no Livro de plantas de todas as fortalezas de António Bocarro, um códice produzido em Goa e que pode ser encontrado na Biblioteca Pública de Évora. O trabalho aborda aspectos anteriormente inexplorados destes mapas, incluindo questões de autoria, a possibilidade de colaboração intercultural durante sua produção e a forma como o design e o uso de sinalética são influenciados por um império em decadência. Usando técnicas de fotografia, FORS, FRX, microscopia Raman, micro-IV-TF, LC-DAD-MS e MEV-EDS, os materiais e métodos de produção dos mapas foram revelados e contextualizados. Os resultados são relevantes para o estudo das relações entre a cartografia decorativa, a económica e a história social, e as belas artes. Esta tese sugere ainda uma abordagem mais holística ao estudo de obras cartográficas.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".