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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Robert H. van Gent
Date: 2024 Apr 1, 11:24 +0000
Hi,
The link with navigation may be the fact that, in 1757, Jorge Juan published the Compendio de navegación para el uso de los cavalleros Guardias Marinas, online here
See also
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0083665685900327
It is perhaps also useful to mention that, since 1791, the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada published the Almanaque náutico y efemérides astronómicas, a Spanish version of the British Nautical Almanac.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanaque_n%C3%A1utico
The early issues do not appear to be online (a quick search in Google Books was unsuccessful although there may be more luck in searching Spanish digital libraries) but last year’s issue is here
https://publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/media/downloadable/files/links/a/m/amanaque_nautico_2023.pdf
and this year’s issue is here
https://publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/almanaque-nautico-2024-revistas-papel.html
The first two centuries of this publication is discussed in
https://documat.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/1090080.pdf
Rob van Gent
