200 October 2022

Our Digital Library is now offering a recent addition to the Juanelo Turriano Collection on the History of Engineering, a book by Roberta Ramella and Marino Viganó with the aforementioned title.

Only a short number of bibliographic writings were published on Juanelo prior to García-Diego’s earliest studies dating from the nineteen seventies. In the interim, however, historiographic research has generated several of undeniable scientific value.

One is the compilation and transcription of documents related to the engineer’s life on record in Spain authored by Luis Cervera Vera and published by the Foundation in 1996. That book served as precursor to the exhaustive study presented here. In the latter, researchers Roberta Ramella and Marino Viganò have reviewed not only relevant documents found in Italian records, but also allusions to Juanelo in historic manuscripts and printed materials. The outcome is a reference book of utmost value for anyone interested in the life and oeuvre of this distinguished Italian engineer.

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The National Distance University’s (UNED) Associated Institution at Segovia, in conjunction with course sponsor Fundación Juanelo Turriano, will deliver a course entitled Foreigners in the Modern Age city: draw, describe, understand on 28 to 30 October next.

The course is geared to historians, engineers, art and science historians, architects, geographers and anyone interested in the subject.

Co-headed by Alicia Cámara Muñoz, full professor of art history at UNED, and Bernardo Revuelta Pol, Fundación Juanelo Turriano Director, it carries 1 European Credit Transfer System credit.

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The Spanish Society of the History of Construction (SEdHC) announces its Twelfth National and Fourth International Spanish-American Congress on the History of Construction, to be held at the University of Oviedo’s Mieres Technical School on 4 to 8 October 2022.

The congress will address the subjects most commonly associated with the discipline, although with particular emphasis on Asturian construction, industrial architecture and the history of public works.

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The Asociación Iberoamericana de Historia Urbana [Spanish-American association of urban history] will hold its Third Congress in Madrid on 22 to 25 November around the theme Building the past and designing the future.

The purpose is to encourage a discussion of the challenges facing today’s cities in connection with both past experience and design options for the future. The event is open to academic fields such as geography, history, urban planning, art history and historic architecture and sociology, among others.

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The University of Oviedo’s Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII [eighteenth century studies] announces the first edition of its awards. The intention is to support the dissemination of original, unedited research in Spanish making a relevant contribution to the knowledge of eighteenth-century Spain as a country ‘spanning two hemispheres’.

The deadline for receiving submissions is 15 December 2022.

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