138 February 2018

A round table entitled Juanelo Turriano, science and legend will be held at 7:00 PM on 1 March in the auditorium of Spain’s National Library.

Three historians well versed in Juanelo Turriano’s life and oeuvre, Baltasar Magro, Cristiano Zanetti and Ángel Moreno, will participate in the discussion, which will be moderated by Bernardo Revuelta Pol, Fundación Juanelo Turriano Director.

The event will be open to the general public, cost-free.

On 12 February Spanish National Radio’s Longitud de onda [Wave length] devoted a programme to Juanelo Turriano, in which Bernardo Revuelta Pol took part.

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An international congress entitled "To be the making of": engineering, loyalties and power networks in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will be held on 16 and 17 April in the auditorium of the Spanish National Distance University’s (UNED) School of Political Science and Sociology.

The congress will be coordinated by Margarita Ana Vázquez Manassero, PhD. in art history with the UNED, and Alicia Cámara Muñoz, Head of the university’s Department of Art History and member of our foundation’s Advisory Commission.

Syllabus (In spanish)

Our library now has a copy of Eugenio Torres Villanueva’s book Cien empresarios madrileños [One hundred Madrilenian entrepreneurs], which identifies Victoriano Muñoz Cava, Fundación Juanelo Turriano President, as one of the key entrepreneurs in Spanish business history.

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The Eleventh International Congress on Molinology will be held at Palma de Mallorca on 18 to 20 October, under the theme History, architecture, engineering and future.

The deadline for submitting abstracts for oral communications and posters is 31 May.

Candidacies for the fourth edition of the Fundación Patrimonio Industrial de Andalucía awards, covering the years 2015-2016-2017, may be submitted through the 15 April deadline.

See rules (In Spanish)