Resumen de Academias y ciencias en la Europa ilustrada
The constitution of the ¿Real Academia Cirúrgica Prototypo-Lusitânica Portuense¿ in 1748, especially thanks to the efforts of Manuel Gomes de Lima Bezerra, is frequently ignored by cultural history, even by authors who have studied Portuguese academies. The number of statutory, literary and scientific texts which were based on that constitutive document, however. is quite significant (and symbolically significant). The successive reformulations of the original text bear a distinctive trait, the myth of a supra-national legislator, who, guided by Reason, gradually gave shape to the Enlightenment Era.
