Draughtsman engineers serving the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

by Alicia Cámara Muñoz, Alfonso Muñoz Cosme, José Calvo López, Javier Ortega Vidal, Juan Miguel Muñoz Corbalán, Fernando Cobos, Carlos José Hernando Sánchez, Pablo de la Fuente de Pablo, Consuelo Gómez López, Antonio Bravo Nieto, Sergio Ramírez González, Maurizio Vesco, Annalisa Dameri, Isabelle Warmoes, Emilie D'Orgeix, Margarita-Ana Vázquez-​Manassero, Ana García Serrano, Ángel Castellanos, Jesús López Díaz

2016 · Fundación Juanelo Turriano

This volume of the collection Juanelo Turriano Lectures on the history of engineeringcontains the findings of R&D+I research project HAR 2012-31117El dibujante ingeniero al servicio de la monarquía hispánica. Siglos XVI-XVIII (DIMH)[draughtsman engineers serving the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries], funded by the Spanish Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness and implemented under the leadership of Alicia Cámara Muñoz, Head of the National Distance University’s (UNED) Art History Department. Authored by project researchers and other specialists, the chapters are grouped under four main sections: «Engineers vs architects, Illustrated design»; «Describing frontiers»; «Dissemination: Custom and form»; and «Digital humanities in the DIMH Project». Key aspects of engineers’ drawings, applied by the court to a number of purposes throughout the three centuries, are addressed under each heading. These illustrations and their authors were used by the crown to glean information on, control and transform cities and territories. The novel focus adopted enhances the understanding of the development, coding and usage of drawing. The participation of historians, art historians, architects and IT engineers attests to the interdisciplinary nature of the project and the changes taking place over the years in the study of images that lie halfway between art and science. Tabla de Contenidos PREFACE / Alicia Cámara I. ENGINEERS VS ARCHITECTS, DESIGN DRAWING: 1. Drawing instruments, engineering methods and representation systems in sixteenth through eighteenth centuries fortification design / Alfonso Muñoz Cosme 2. From stonecutting to descriptive geometry. Orthographic projection and military engineering from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / José Calvo López Eighteenth century engineers' and architects' drawings for the "Royal Sites" : survey record and design / Javier Ortega Vidal 4. Military map-making urgency in Early Eighteenth Century Spain. Ordinance of engineers and the Academy of Mathematics / Juan Miguel Muñoz Corbalán 5. Methodology applicable to the graphic analysis of fortification projects / Fernando Cobos II. DESCRIBING FRONTIERS: 6. Keeping secrets and mapping frontiers: government and image in the Spanish Monarchy / Carlos José Hernando Sánchez 7. Luis Pizaño and his projects for Roses: idea, drawing, and decision / Pablo de la Fuente de Pablo 8. Alliance or defence: military strategy and diplomacy in the Spanish Monarchy's Seventeenth century projects for Western Liguria / Consuelo Gómez López 9. City, war and drawing in the Sisteenth century: from Tripoli to the Moroccan Atlantic / Antonio Bravo Nieto y Sergio Ramírez González 10. Designing the bastion against the turks: Sicily and Malta / Maurizio Vesco 11. Defending a border. Piedmont and Lombardy cities in the first half of the Seventeenth century / Annalisa Dameri III. DISSEMINATION: CUSTOM AND FORM: 12. The rationalisation and codification ot the cartographic practises of French military engineers under Louis XIV / Isabelle Warmoes 13. The engineer, the royal academies, and the drawing of maps and plans in France in the Early Modern Period / Emilie d'Orgeix "Looking at the world on two sheets of paper": the image of the orb and mathematics in the education of prince Philip III / Margarita Váquez_Manassero 15. "Tengo gran macchina di cose perr intagliare..." [I have a large collection of things to be engraved...]. The drawing of commander Tiburzio Spannocchi, chief engineer of the kingdoms of Spain / Alicia Cámara IV. DIGITAL HUMANITIES IN THE DIMH PROJECT: 16. Modelling, access and visualization in the DIMH Spanish project / Ana García Serrano y Ángel Castellanos 17. Future answer to the historian: the current development ot the semantic web in the area of historical archives / Jesús López Díaz BOOKS PUBLISHED BY FUNDACIÓN JUANELO TURRIANO.

The Conquest and Settlement of Venezuela

by José de Oviedo y Baños

2024 · Univ of California Press

This classic in the literature of the European exploration and settlement of the New World has never until now been available in the English language. Its author, born in 1671, was descended from a noble Spanish family and was a learned and influential member of Caracas society. His Historia de la conquista y poblacion de la provincia de Venezuela is widely regarded as a literary masterpiece and a major historical work. It has been read and acclaimed throughout the world. Jeannette Varner's sensitive translation will be welcomed by English-speaking Latin Americanists everywhere. The work is an accurate and absorbing narration of the early history of Venezuela, from Christopher Columbus's arrival on August 1, 1498, on his third voyage to the New World, until its sack by the British corsair, Sir Francis Drake, at the end of the sixteenth century. Based firmly on the histories of official chroniclers and early historians of Venezuela, its first four book are a matchless introduction to the subject and provide valuable background for scholarly study. The last three books, dealing with the bloody struggle for the domination of Caracas and its vicinity, constitute Oviedo's original contribution to the history of Venezuela. Widely divergent subject matter ranges from the ghastly crimes of the tyrant Lope de Aguirre, who murdered both his priest and his daughter, to the mystic transfiguration of Martin Tinajero, whose body attracted swarms of wild bees with its odor of honey. In his Letras y hombres de Venezuela, Arturo Uslar Pietri calls the book a "song of pride in race and love of the land, an elegy full of sentiment and melody." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Biblioteca hispano-americana (1493-1810): 1701-1767

by José Toribio Medina

1901

8,486 titles, transcribed line for line, with bio-bibliographical notes, and frequent references to authorities and to libraries containing copies of the works described.