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Initially thought of as a one-off event, the success of this scientific meeting led to its repetition, although it was deemed that the staging of similar events would be adapted to the specific circumstances that made their funding feasible, such as commemorative cycles. This explains why the subsequent meetings organised by Max Guedes and Luís de Albuquerque were organised according to an irregular schedule: 1976, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1987.
In 1968, Armando Cortesão also published the two volumes of his História da Cartografia Portuguesa [History of Portuguese Cartography] (Cortesão, 1969), thus closing the exceptional inaugural period of activities of the Coimbra branch of the Agrupamento de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga.
In the meantime, Luís de Albuquerque' s university career advanced: he was approved in 1963 in the tender for Professor Extraordinário [Extraordinary Professor] at the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Coimbra, he became Professor Agregado [Associate Professor with habilitation] in the same year, and in 1966 was approved in the tender for Professor Catedrático [Full Tenured Professor].
Luís de Albuquerque's activity was always characterised by multiple responsibilities at different levels: the mathematics professor who was also a history professor, the academic who served the University in several important positions, the citizen who served the city in which he lived almost all his life with the same intensity. This commitment to the service of the institutions to which he was connected and the plurality of his university contributions are a reflection not only of his character but also of his dedicated approach to his commitments. Shortly before completing a decade of intense service to the University, he became Governador Civil do Distrito de Coimbra [Civil Governor of the District of Coimbra] (1974-76), the only political post he ever held, and through which his role in the city was meritorious.
In addition to various positions at the Faculdade de Ciências, he was vice-chancellor of the University from 1978 to 1982 and also Director da Biblioteca Geral da Universidade [Director of the General Library of the University] (BGUC) from 1978 until his retirement. He was particularly fond of this position, and during his term of office he promoted an important series of publications on his themes of reference, namely Nautical Science and Cartography.
