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This Wednesday, October 30, at 8:00 p.m. at the Josefina Soria del Luzzy Library, José Bonnet presents his book 'Pacific.
The Spanish lake '(Europa Ediciones, 2019) within the program of' Read, Think and Imagine 'belonging to the Department of Culture.
The author will be presented by Mª Carmen Rodal, responsible for the Municipal Libraries, counting in this act with the presence of the Councilor for the Area of ​​Culture, Youth and Equality, David Martínez.
The discovery of the Pacific, the largest ocean on Earth, carried out almost all of it by Spanish ships, is the greatest exploit carried out by man throughout its history.
An Australian historian, Oskar Spate, baptized this ocean rightly, “Pacific.
The Spanish lake â€, name that has remained in this book.
The favorable winds and currents that allowed trips to the west and the return to the east called “tornaviaje†were to be found, after which a regular line called “Manila Galleonâ€, “Nao de Acapulco†or “Nao de Acapulco†could be established China â€between Acapulco, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and Manila and back, which lasted two hundred and fifty years, more than many empires, of the almost four hundred in which there was a Spanish presence in the Pacific.
The knowledge of this feat was largely hidden by the explorations and conquests in America, with the birth of great nations and, despite being studied by historians, its dissemination has been very scarce.
You can not want or admire what is not known.
Ignorance of that immensity made those voyages impossible.
However, the enormous risks were assumed by those crews that played life or, at best, health.
Many ships were adrift, already unmanned, ending with the wood destroyed or destroyed in distant and unknown cliffs, but they accepted the risk by making good that phrase of Christopher Columbus: “The sea gives each man a new hope, like the sleep gives you dreams. â€
José Bonnet Casciaro (Cartagena, 1942).
Sailor and traveler, he has visited countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and America, coming into contact with different cultures and social situations.
It begins in the study of astronomy from nautical or position astronomy, to continue astrophysics.
He founded the Astronomical Association of Cartagena in 1987 and an observatory, which collaborates with professional astronomers.
From this stage an encyclopedic reference book, "Astrohistory", was born, with more than four thousand entries.
He writes an essay on chromain hominids, "Champs Elysées" and, subsequently, "History as a problem."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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