Artist: Jorge Juan Crespo De La Serna
Datum: 1757
Muzeum: Naval Museum (Madrid, Spain)
Technika: Paper
In 1757 the humanist, scientist, and naval engineer Jorge Juan wrote his Compendio de navegación para el uso de los Cavalleros Guardias-Marinas. Por D. Jorge Juan, del Consejo de S.M. en su Junta de Comercio, Moneda, &c. Capitàn de Navio de la R. Armada y de la Compañía de Guardias Marinas, de la Real Sociedad de Londres, de la R. Acadèmia de Berlìn y Corr. de la de París. The purpose of the work was to train the Cádiz midshipmen, and it became a compulsory textbook that was used for many years with very few modifications after the content on longitude was added. In including all the author
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