Jorge Juan: Mathematician, Seaman, Engineer, Diplomat, and Spy of the Spanish Enlightenment
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| Title: | Jorge Juan: Mathematician, Seaman, Engineer, Diplomat, and Spy of the Spanish Enlightenment |
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| Authors: | Alberola-Romá, Armando | Die Maculet, Rosario | Goberna, Miguel A. |
| Research Group/s: | Grupo de Investigación en Historia y Clima | Laboratorio de Optimización (LOPT) |
| Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Historia Medieval, Historia Moderna y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Matemáticas |
| Keywords: | Jorge Juan | Mathematician | Seaman | 18th century |
| Issue Date: | 14-Aug-2023 |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Citation: | The Mathematical Intelligencer. 2023, 45: 346-358. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-023-10289-z |
| Abstract: | Jorge Juan (1713–1773) was a mathematician and seaman who took part in the famous Spanish–French expedition to South America to measure a degree of meridian at the equator in order to calculate Earth’s equatorial diameter. Throughout his life, he worked tirelessly to modernize mathematics, the nautical sciences, and engineering in Spain. In particular, the problem of the shape of the Earth was of paramount importance at the beginning of the eighteenth century, because it affected geodesy and astronomy—both then part of the mathematics curriculum in European universities—as well as physics, mechanics, and engineering. |
| Sponsor: | Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/136753 |
| ISSN: | 0343-6993 (Print) | 1866-7414 (Online) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00283-023-10289-z |
| Language: | eng |
| Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Rights: | © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Peer Review: | si |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-023-10289-z |
| Appears in Collections: | INV - LOPT - Artículos de Revistas INV - HYC - Artículos de Revistas |
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