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Descubrimiento de la Aguja Náutica, de la situacion de la Amerérica, del Arte de Navegar, y de un Nuevo Método para el Adelantamiento en la Artes y Ciencias. Disertacion en que se manifiesta que el primer Autor de todo lo expuesto es el Beato Raymundo Lulio, Martir y Doctor Iluminado. Con un apéndice de la enseñanza pública, de los progresos de la literatura, y otros puntos históricos pertenecientes á Mallorca.
by PASQUAL [or Pascual], Antonio Raymundo
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About This Item
Madrid, En la Imprenta de Manuel Gonzalez, 1789.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 4°, contemporary vellum (5 cm. of outer edge of front cover slightly gnawed near lower corner), horizontal ink manuscript short author-title on spine, text block edges lightly sprinkled red. Occasional light toning. Overall in very good condition. (4 ll.), 320 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this treatise seeking to show that the medieval Catalan thinker Ramón Lull (or Llull; 1232?-1316), a native of Palma, Majorca, had discovered the use of the magnetic compass in navigation, and that Lull's theories regarding the existence of a Western continent influenced Columbus. There are some curious notices regarding the early Majorcan cosmographers, and others with respect to the Benedictine Brother Bernardo Boil, who, with twelve companions, accompanied Columbus on his second voyage, with the aim of converting the Indians. Boil is supposed to have said the first mass in the New World. Fray Antonio Raimundo Pascual (1708-1791) was a Majorcan Cistercian brother. He wrote at least six works that were published in his lifetime, four of which dealt with Llull. *** Aguilar Piñal, Bibliografia de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, VI, 1968. Palau 214290. Sabin 58993. British Library Eighteenth-Century Spanish STC P35. JCB III, ii, 3314.
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- Title
- Descubrimiento de la Aguja Náutica, de la situacion de la Amerérica, del Arte de Navegar, y de un Nuevo Método para el Adelantamiento en la Artes y Ciencias. Disertacion en que se manifiesta que el primer Autor de todo lo expuesto es el Beato Raymundo Lulio, Martir y Doctor Iluminado. Con un apéndice de la enseñanza pública, de los progresos de la literatura, y otros puntos históricos pertenecientes á Mallorca.
- Author
- PASQUAL [or Pascual], Antonio Raymundo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- FIRST and ONLY EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Madrid, En la Imprenta de Manuel Gonzalez, 1789.
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- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mallorca, Majorca, intellectural life, Aguja náutica, navigation, compass, magnet, Ramón Lull, Llull, Columbus, discoveries, New World, Catalonia, Catalan
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