Cosmography in the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution

Chapter 1. PLUS ULTRA: THE IBERIAN EXPLORATIONS AND CARTOGRAPHY.- Chapter 2. HUMANISM AS A TRIGGER FOR THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.- Chapter 3. THE NEW ASTRONOMY AT THE DAWN OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.- Chapter 4. THE MEASURE OF LONGITUDE: FROM IBERIA TO ALBION.- Chapter 5. THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH AND GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATION.

Dr. David Barrado Navascués is a senior researcher at the Spanish Centro de Astrobiologia. He works at the European Science Astronomical Center (ESAC), which is part of the European Space Agency near Madrid. At the Instituto Nacional de Ténica Aerospacial (INTA), he has been Principal Investigator and was the National Project Manager for the Spanish collaboration within MIRI, the Mid-Infrared Instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope. He was also previously the director of the Spanish-German Center Calar Alto Observatory.
Dr. Barrado Navascués was a postdoc in the theoretical department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Max-Plank Institut für Astronomie (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finished his PhD dissertation in Astrophysics; initiated at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He also has a PhD in Philosophy and Humanities and received the 2021 award to the best PhD dissertation by the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Division C Education, Outreach and Heritage. He has also held prestigious fellowships, such as: Fulbright scientist, a NASA/NSF fellowship, and a contract by the Ramón y Cajal program.
Dr. Barrado Navascués' research topics focus on the search and characterization of the properties of substellar objects and exoplanets, as well as properties of stars in open clusters. He has specialized in stellar and planetary system formation using varying observational techniques, including optical to far infrared imaging, spectroscopy, and ground-based and space-borne telescopes. This observational effort has produced more than 300 articles in well-known journals such A&A, ApJ, AJ, Nature, Science and MNRAS, with a significant impact (H factor=71). He has proudly published several books about science and history of science for the general public.