Gonçalo Dias joined Medea-Chart as a postdoctoral fellow almost from the beginning of the project, in July 2017. His knowledge of history is immense and day-by-day conversations with him were always extremely interesting, sometimes even sparking long discussions with the other team members at lunchtime, one of the many opportunities for debating research, history in general, and the history of science in particular. Even though Gonçalo’s background is in Theoretical Physics,

This time the paper reflects the post-doctoral research of Gonçalo Dias on the cartometric analysis of maps, and it can be accessed in full at the journal e-Perimetron.