Solving a Sunken Mystery: The Investigation and Identification of a Sixteenth-Century Shipwreck

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In the summer of 1991, St. Johns Expeditions, a Florida-based marine salvage company, discovered a shipwreck buried behind a shallow reef along the western edge of the Little Bahama Bank. The group contacted archaeologists to ascertain the significance of the discovery, and it was soon determined to be a Spanish ship dating to the 1500’s. The investigation of the shipwreck was entrusted to the author, working for the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society (MFMHS), a not-for-profit research center based in Key West, Florida. Under the agreement, the collection of recovered materials will remain as an intact collection housed in both Key West and The Bahamas.

Between 1992 and 1999, the MFMHS conducted six excavations to examine

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Colombia recupera los primeros tesoros del galeón San José, hundido en el Caribe hace 300 años

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Por Michael Rios, CNN

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19:38 ET (00:38 GMT) 20 de noviembre de 2025
 
 
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Colombia recuperó monedas de oro y bronce, una taza de porcelana y un cañón de un buque de guerra español hundido, conocido como el “Santo Grial de los naufragios”.

 

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Estos artefactos son los primeros tesoros recuperados de los restos del San José, un galeón español que fue hundido por la Marina Real británica en el Caribe hace más de 300 años.

En el momento de su hundimiento, durante la Guerra de Sucesión española, el San José transportaba grandes cantidades de oro, plata y esmeraldas desde las colonias españolas en América Latina hacia el reino de España.

 

Big business on the high seas

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Posted on 26th July 2021

Sarah Ensor

A review of Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World by Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás (Verso, 2021), £20


Capitalism and the Sea is an engaging new study of capitalism’s transformation of the human relationship to the sea. It uses a Marxist approach to understand how capitalism constantly reinvents itself to maximise profit and, in the process, intensifies exploitation, privatises vast areas of the sea and commodifies the species that inhabit them. The book is divided into sections on “circulation”, “order”, “exploitation”, “appropriation”, “logistics” and “offshore”. However, it is the excellent chapter on appropriation that offers the pivotal argument, detailing how changing capitalism remodels and reshapes how society interacts with the seas and oceans. These reflections

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How Ptolemy’s 1st Projection Revolutionized Mapmaking in the Ancient World

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Elizabeth Streets Map Projections 

Ptolemy’s 1st projection is also known as the plane chart or planispheric projection. It is an early cartographic technique by the Greco-Roman mathematician and geographer Claudius Ptolemy. Ptolemy’s work in geography forms the basis of modern cartography. His ideas are particularly clear in his seminal work, the Geographia (or Geography).

Overview of Ptolemy’s 1st Projection

Ptolemy’s 1st projection is a simple cylindrical projection where the Earth is represented as a flat plane. In this projection:

  • Meridians (lines of longitude) are straight and equally spaced, running perpendicular to the Equator.
  • Parallels (lines of latitude) are also straight lines, but unlike meridians, they are not equally spaced. The spacing between parallels increases as one moves away from the Equator toward the poles.

Characteristics and Usage

  1. Simplicity: Ptolemy’s 1st projection is relatively easy to construct mathematically, which made

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Martín González y Blas Moreno, dos ejemplos de coleccionismo en los Capitanes de la Flota de Indias durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVII

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Martín González y Blas Moreno, dos ejemplos de coleccionismo en los Capitanes de la Flota de Indias durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVII

 

RAFAEL RODRÍGUEZ-VARO ROALES

Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Sevilla

atrio, 15-16 (2010)      ISSN: 0214-8289        p. 157 - 166

 “El Archivo de protocolos encierra infinidad de documentos...

...No es tarea de un solo hombre agotar esta cantera”

Antonio Domínguez Ortiz1

Resumen: La revisión de los inventarios de los capitanes, Martín González y Blas Moreno, nos acercarán a la relación de dos capitanes de la Flota de Indias con el arte. La búsqueda de estos hombres de una “nobleza por honor”, les hará utilizar el arte y los acercará a los gustos del coleccionismo oficial del siglo XVII.

Palabras Clave: Sevilla,

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