Jorge Juan y Santacilia (Novelda, Alicante, 5 January 1713 – Madrid, 21 June 1773) was a Spanish mariner, mathematician, natural scientist, astronomer...
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Jorge Juan may refer to: Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773), Spanish mathematician, scientist, naval officer, and mariner Spanish sloop Jorge Juan, a...
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astronomer Antonio de Ulloa and his colleague the mathematician Jorge Juan y Santacilia. Ulloa was the first person to write a scientific description of...
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Jorge Juan was a Jorge Juan-class sloop of the Spanish Navy which was sunk off Cuba during the Spanish–American War. Jorge Juan was built at La Seyne...
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of gold with platinum impurities. In 1735, Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan y Santacilia saw Native Americans mining platinum while the Spaniards were travelling...
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Spanish peseta." When Juan Carlos became king, there were a few changes: the replacement of Franco's portrait with that of Juan Carlos on the 50 cts and...
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of gold with platinum impurities. In 1735, Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan y Santacilia saw Native Americans mining platinum while the Spaniards were travelling...
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– John Wayles, American lawyer and planter (b. 1715) June 21 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Spanish geodesist (b. 1713) June 27 – Mentewab, dowager Empress...
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brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783. Discovery of platinum by scientist, soldier and author Antonio de Ulloa (1716–1795) with Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773)...
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Tito was a famous artist before the age of Independence. In 1737, Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish scientists sent by the French Academy...
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historique à la Mesure des trois premiers degrés du Méridien (1751) Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, two Spanish mathematicians who also participated...
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José Antonio de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Villagarcía (redirect from José Antonio de Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor)
to go to defend the coast of Chile. In 1736 Spanish scientists Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, sent by the French Academy on a French Geodesic...
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University Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-19-090803-4. Antonio de Ulloa; Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1748). Relación histórica del viage. Hecho de orden de S. Mag...
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on 16 May 1735, touched at Cadiz to take two naval lieutenants, Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, whom Philip V had ordered to accompany it...
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Spanish Navy California Historical Landmarks in San Francisco Jorge Juan y Santacilia "The San Carlos, First Spanish Ship to Enter the S.F. Bay". sfbaytimetraveler...
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contributions of astronomers such as Alonso de Santa Cruz, Juan Arias de Loyola and Jorge Juan y Santacilia was also key to Spain's preponderance in the oceans...
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botanicist, carried out important research about the Mexican flora Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773), mathematician and naval officer. Determined that the...
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shipwright Rooth between 1753 and 1755 using the English method or by Jorge Juan y Santacilia. She was launched on 10 March 1754, entering service with 68 guns...
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January 2 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) January 5 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Spanish mathematician and naval officer (d. 1773) January 7 –...
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Surgeons and the Botanical Garden of Cádiz in 1760. Along with Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Virgili organized a scientific "assembly" which they had envisioned...
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soldier and author; joint discoverer of element platinum with Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773). Francisco Vallés (1524-1592), physician, regarded...
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January 2 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) January 5 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Spanish mathematician and naval officer (d. 1773) January 7 –...
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testimonies of the illustrious travelers Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan y Santacilia in 1735; documents from the General Archive of the Indies in Seville...
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warehouses, offices, workshops and homes had been built. Even though Jorge Juan together with José Barnola drew up detailed plans for developing the port...
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– John Wayles, American lawyer and planter (b. 1715) June 21 – Jorge Juan y Santacilia, Spanish geodesist (b. 1713) June 27 – Mentewab, dowager Empress...
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is a Mallorcan humorist IAU · 185578 185579 Jorgejuan 2008 BS16 Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713–1773) was a Spanish sailor who founded the Royal Observatory...
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Antonio de Ulloa (redirect from Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre Giral)
Virtual Library, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi |Antonio de Ulloa y Jorge Juan Santacilia, Cervantes Virtual Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antonio...
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Róbinson Jorge Juan y Santacilia Ángel Laborde Navarro Rafael De Laiglesia Darrac José María Lazaga y Ruiz Blas de Lezo Santiago Liniers y Bremond Miguel...
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by further explorations by archeologists examining the areas. Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Louis Godin, on their voyage through South America to fix signals...
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called La vida, la mujer y el hombre (Live, woman and man), commissioned by friend and colleague Carlos Obregón Santacilia. The work was controversial...
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