Book Review: José Maria Moreno Madrid; Henrique Leitão. <i>A Longitude do Mundo – Viagens Oceânicas, Cosmografia Matemática e a Construção de uma Terra Global</i> [The World’s Longitude – Oceanic Voyages, Mathematical Cosmography and the Construction

The authors and the reviewer are colleagues within the Centro Interuniversitrio de Histria das Cincias (CIUHCT), a shared context that may inform the perspective from which this review is written.The structure of this work is reminiscent of a musical piece, complete with ouverture, interludes and coda, where mutual correspondences, delight the reader: the three main parts, form a sequence with interludes: part one "The longitude of the West," is followed by "Interlude i-Nuremberg;" part two, "The longitude of the East," is succeeded by "Interlude ii -Europe;" and part three, "The longitude of the Orb," is followed by a "Coda," to round off the work with a synthesis.