| Summary: | The main goal of this article is to introduce the participation of the Luso-Brazilian intellectual
elite in the formation of literary societies and in the history of science in Portugal. Their developments led
to the first collective manifestations of a local intelligence, bringing together graduates of European
universities under the command of the Portuguese Crown. These scholars, born in a colony devoid of
universities, were responsible for the emergence of the first, though short-lived, Academy of Sciences of
the entire Portuguese Empire. To understand the birth of scientific practice in Brazil as an effort of its
intellectual elite, it is necessary to pursue the thread of history that reveals its constitution.
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