129 October 2017

On 6 October Fundación Juanelo Turriano Trustees and members of its Advisory Commission visited the Loma de Montijo cemetery in the Spanish province of Burgos, where they adorned José Antonio García-Diego’s grave with flowers to honour the memory of the civil engineer who founded our institution 30 years ago.

One of the monuments they visited was the Loma de Montija stone bridge that opened to traffic in 1918 after works were concluded thanks to funding provided by Luis García-Diego y Casado, among others.

Fundación Juanelo Turriano has recently purchased the following works for its library:

La navegación en el río Ebro: notas históricas [Navigation on the River Ebro, historic notes] by Francisco Carreras y Candi (1940)

El Pont de Besalú sobre el Fluvia [Besalú bridge over the River Fluvia] by Josep Danés I Torras (1917)

Figuras de los modelos de puentes en arco de hormigón armado [Figures of models of reinforced concrete arch bridges] by José Eugenio Ribera (1925)

Apología en excusación y favor de las fábricas del Reino de Nápoles. Por el Comendador Scribá; manuscrito del siglo XVI publicado... por Eduardo Mariátegui (1878) [Apología in defence and in favour of Naples Kingdom defensive structures by Commander Scribà, sixteenth century manuscript published… by Eduardo Mariátegui (1878)

 

On 17 October the San Fernando Fine Arts Academy will present its project to digitise and disseminate over 15 000 works, which will be made available to researchers and specialists.

The exhibition Francisco de Holanda (1517-1584) in his fifth centenary: initiation voyage through the Renaissance avant-garde will be open to the public at the National Library’s Sala Mínima from 10 October 2017 to 24 January 2018.

The showing, which is open to the general public cost-free, pays tribute to this Portuguese artist, writer and intellectual.

A replica of the codex entitled Os desenhos das antigualhas que vio Francisco d'Ollanda, pintor portugués (...1539-1540...) , custodied at El Escorial, can be consulted at the Fundación Juanelo Turriano Library.

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The exhibition Enrique Moles, Spanish chemist opened to the public on 9 October at the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Science.

The showing, which will remain open through 3 November, was organised by Amigos de la Cultura Científica y la Academia de Ciencias, Ingenierías y Humanidades de Lanzarote in conjunction with the Asociación de Amigos de la Real Academia de Ciencias.

The exhibit halls are open to the general public cost-free Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.

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