Talk:Pedro Nunes
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Admittedly my Portuguese isn't that good yet but I THINK the Portuguese version of that article states as fact that he was a new Christian. This version has "maybe". Can anyone check the sources at the bottom of the POrtuguese version and see how well it is support. Cheers A Geek Tragedy 20:43, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pedro Nunes and Judaism
Was Nunes a New Christian?' Remember this is a man so undocumented that even the month and day of his birth are unknown. A Google search for 'Pedro Nunes Judaism' gets 26,000 hits. Someone with more patience than I might find a reliable source in there. I found a page from instituto-camoes.pt that declares "..nothing in the writings of Pedro Nunes reveals any sign of Crypto-Judaism", but I don't know what Instituto Camoes really is, whether it's academic. There are other pages that give him a serious Jewish connection, but I don't know whether to trust them either. Everyone agrees that he married a Catholic. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography (a printed source, but something like an encylopedia, hence not too reliable) has nothing to connect him with Judaism, but they are more interested in his scientific work. Before this can be resolved either way, someone may have to dig to find an academic paper by a real historian. EdJohnston 04:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Not sure on the judaism issue, but the Instituto Camões is one of top institutions in Portuguese culture, together with the Gulbenkian Foundation. It is part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. English language mission statement here [here]. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Galf (talk • contribs) 10:10, 10 March 2007 (UTC).
