233 January 2025

Fundación Juanelo Turriano has recently acquired the following items for its library:

Teatro de los instrumentos y figuras matemáticas y mecánicas. Libro muy útil y necessario para todos estados de personas [Theatre of mathematical and mechanical instruments and figures. Most useful and necessary book for all estates of persons] composed by Diego Besson. Lyon, 1602 (edition in Spanish).

Pont sur La Manche: Avant Projets de MM. Schneider et Cie (Usines de Creusot) et H. Hersent [Bridge over the English Channel: Preliminary designs by Messrs Schneider et Cie (Usines de Creusot) and H. Hersent]. Paris, 1889.

Boletín de información de la Dirección General de Arquitectura (1946-1956) [Directorate-General of Architecture Newsletter (1946-1956)].

The online workshop The Beauty in the Machine: Symbolic Machines, Automata, and Precious Gears in the Early Modern Period, organised by Cristiano Zanetti of the Philosophy and Cultural Heritage Department of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, will be held on 9 and 10 January.

More

The online symposium Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM), on the use of HBIM as a technique for conserving industrial heritage and public works, will be held free of charge on 13 January at 5:00 PM.

The symposium will be run by Agustín Castillo Martínez, industrial engineer, professor at the University of Jaén and member of FUPIA, the foundation for Andalusia’s industrial heritage.

Click here to preregister.

INCUNA (Industry, Culture, Nature) will be holding its twenty-seventh International Industrial Heritage Conference in Gijón on 18 to 21 June in conjunction with the Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas (SEHCYT, Spanish Society for the History of Science and Technology), which will be holding its fifteenth congress at the same time.

Paper proposals must be submitted before 28 February 2025.

More...

The University of Oviedo’s Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (Feijoo Institute of Eighteenth-Century Studies) is now accepting submissions for the third Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII Research Prize.

Originals may be submitted from 15 January to 15 December 2025.

More... (In Spanish)