Ciencia - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:40:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Ciencia - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Cosme de Churruca’s expedition https://historylab.es/cosme-de-churrucas-expedition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cosme-de-churrucas-expedition Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:54:49 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/expedicion-de-cosme-de-churruca/ Cosme de Churruca's expedition to compile an Atlas of South America

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]]> Document that records the arrival of the brigantines Descubridor and Vigilante captained by Cosme Damián de Churruca, frigate captain, for the formation of a maritime atlas in North America. Before fighting in the battle of Trafalgar (1805), where he lost his life, this military man, scientist and sailor commanded some of the most important geographical expeditions to South America. This expedition consisted of two sections, one of which was to cover the islands and coasts of the Mexican Gulf and the other the rest of the continent, with the aim of forming the maritime atlas of North America. Carried out between 1792 and 1795, Cosme Damián Churruca was accompanied by José de Mazarredo and Joaquín Francisco Fidalgo.

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]]> Study course for the instruction of the Prince of Parma https://historylab.es/cours-detudes-pour-linstruction-du-prince-de-parme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cours-detudes-pour-linstruction-du-prince-de-parme Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:40 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cours-detudes-pour-linstruction-du-prince-de-parme/ Fragment of text in which Condillac calls on Ferdinand of Bourbon to learn the sciences by experience through observation

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]]> The Abbé Condillac was a leading figure of the Enlightenment. Trained for a religious life, he did not take the habit and completed his education in science and pedagogy. His active academic life led him to be presented as preceptor to the nephew of Louis XV in Parma. There he wrote his 13-volume publication entitled “Cours d’études pour l’instruction du Prince de Parme” in which he was to train the young monarch. His enormous interest in pedagogy enabled him to present a method that he himself pointed out as novel and relevant for training the prince. In this case, the fragment highlights his empiricist side, where he calls on the prince to know things through experience in order to obtain true knowledge of things as opposed to already established systems. The structure of his publication also draws from another great preceptor, the abbé Fénelon, who had trained the grandsons of Louis XIV and the dauphin of France.

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