Original Tofiño letters for sale on the Euskadi, Cantabria and Asturias network
Original Tofiño letters for sale on the Euskadi, Cantabria and Asturias network
They are from the final part of the 18th century all between the 800 and the 1,200 euros... are original and are for sale on the main portals dedicated to antiques or to the old book simply.
They belong to the Atlas Marítimo de España published between 1787 and 1789 work of Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel... considered as a work of the starting point of the modern Spanish cartography, of which it is considered as a summit... the format of the letters that are in an excellent state 90 × 55... today we detailed those that can be acquired, until the end of clear stocks, from the Bidasoa al Miño... there go some examples.
Spherical Letter of the Cantabrian Coast from San Juan de Luz to Calderon Point
Plan of the Port of Pasages located its armour (Passages)
Plano de la Concha and Barra de Bilbao, located the Fondeadero de Portugalete
Plano del Puerto de Santoña located on the coast of Cantabria
Spherical Letter from the coast of Asturias from Punta Calderon to Punta de Mujeres
Plan of the Gijón shell located the Hermitage of Santa Catalina
Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel
He studied experimental physics and joined the army, from which he came out.
In 1755 he was called by Jorge Juan, as a master of mathematics at the Marine Guard Academy of Cadiz, allowing him, in turn, to pass to the Navy as a ship ensign.
-In 1768 he will be appointed director of it and in 1773, simultaneously, also director of the Academies of Ferrol and Cartagena.
- He participated in the expedition against Algiers (1775) and on the site of Gibraltar (1782), ascending in 1784 to brigadier of the Navy and, in 1789, to the head of Escuadra.
-He made the initial project of the building and worked at the Royal Observatory of the Marine Guards Company, publishing observations with great scientific solvency, such as the observation of the passage of Venus through the Sun, taking advantage of an eclipse on June 3, 1796.
-It is embarked and the fruit of its studies is Derotero of the coasts of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea and Africa (1787); its collection of spherical letters from the coasts of Spain and Africa... (1788) and the Derotero of the coasts of Spain in the Atlantic Ocean and of the Azores or -Tercers Islands, for intelligence and use of the spherical letters (1789).
- A disciple of his, Juan Francisco de la Bodega and Quadra, who sailed along the coast of the current British Columbia, founded a city on the west coast of Vancouver Island which he named in his honor, Tofiño (now Tofino, in the absence of the English letter)
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