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Carlos Francisco Moura is an architect who graduated from the National School of Architecture of the University of Brazil in 1960. Now retired, he worked as an architect at Petrobras Distribuidora S.A., and taught and conducted research at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Brasília, as well as at CBEP – Brazilian Center for Portuguese Studies at the same university (under the direction of Prof. Agostinho da Silva), and at the Federal University of Mato Grosso. He carried out pioneering research based on previously unpublished historical documentation, which resulted in considerable bibliographical production. He was the Library Director of the Royal Portuguese Reading Cabinet. Throughout his educational and cultural activities, he received several distinctions: the Comenda Memória do Legislativo de Mato Grosso (Memory Commendation of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso), awarded by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mato Grosso; titles of Sócio Grande Benemérito (Great Benefactor Member) and Laurel de Gratidão (Laurel of Gratitude), granted by the Royal Portuguese Reading Cabinet. He is a member of the following Portuguese institutions: the Portuguese Academy of History (Academic of number, chair no. 31), the Academy of Marinha (Full Extra-Numerary Academic), and the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Corresponding Member). He is also a corresponding member of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, as well as of 5 other state institutes. Published Works: Astronomia na Amazônia no século XVIII (2008) (awarded by the Portuguese Academy of History); Teatro a bordo de naus portuguesas sec. XV a XVIII (Theatre aboard Portuguese ships, 15th to 18th centuries) (Rio de Janeiro, 2000, 2nd ed., Lisbon 2017); A expedição Langsdorff em Mato Grosso: Desenhos e pinturas inéditas há mais de 150 anos (The Langsdorff Expedition in Mato Grosso: Unpublished drawings and paintings over 150 years old) (1984); O ensino na Real Academia dos Guardas-Marinhas no século XVIII (Education at the Royal Academy of Midshipmen in the 18th century) (2019); Naus e Fragatas: Conjunto de gravuras didáticos setecentistas portuguesas (Ships and Frigates: A set of 18th-century Portuguese teaching engravings) (2018); Liou She-Shun – Plenipotenciário do Império da China: Viagem ao Brasil em 1909 (Liou She-Shun – Plenipotentiary of the Empire of China: Travel to Brazil in 1909) (1st ed., Macau 2011; 2nd ed. in Chinese, 2013); D. Antônio Rolim de Moura, Conde de Azambuja: 1º governador de Mato Grosso, Governador da Bahia, Vice-Rei do Brasil (1982) (D. Antônio Rolim de Moura, Count of Azambuja: 1st Governor of Mato Grosso, Governor of Bahia, Vice-Roy of Brazil) (1982). Areas of Interest: History of sciences in Brazil and Portugal (16th to 18th centuries), ancient ships, routes, history of theater in Brazil (16th and 18th centuries), theater aboard Portuguese ships (15th-18th centuries), and Mato Grosso.