Experiencing Nature: The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution

Appendix 2

appendix 2 Instruments table 4. instruments to rescue objects from the ocean Date (Y/M/D) Inventor, Craftsman Instrument, Device, Technology 1520/08/27 Juan de Cárdenas Instrument for fishing oysters in Cubagua1 1526/06/20 Juan Fernández de Promise to make an instruCastro ment for removing gold from rivers in Cuba, Hispaniola, San Juan, and Jamaica2 1528/01/10 Luis de Lampiñán, son Instrument for fishing oysters3 of the Conde Juan Andrea de Lampiñán 1539/03/07 Nicolás de Rodas, Greek Instrument for diving4 1544/09/29 Antonio Binali Offer to make instruments and devices for rescuing a box of gold and silver lost in the ocean5 1565/04/01 Pedro de Herrera Instrument for rescuing gold, silver, and oysters from the ocean6 1565/04/08 Juan Palomino, Instrument for rescuing gold a clergyman and silver from the ocean7 Appendix 2: Instruments 141 table 4. (continued) 1568/12/19 Antonio Luis de Cabrera, Instrument for rescuing gold Antonio de Luna, and and valuables from wrecked Diego de Lira ships8 1573/11/02 Francisco de Soler Diving device for retrieving objects from the ocean9 1577/10/21 Cristóbal Maldonado Instrument for rescuing gold, silver, and lost objects from wrecked ships10 1583 José Bono (or Jusepe Diving device (a bell)11 Vono), from Sicily 1592/06/29 Bartolomé Francés Instrument for fishing oysters, called a tartana12 1605/06/20 Don Jerónimo de Ayanz Instrument for rescuing objects from the sea and fishing oysters13 1612/12/22 Thomas de Cardona, a Instrument for rescuing Venetian resident of objects from the oceans Seville, and Sancho de and fishing oysters14 Meras 1640/05/14 Diego Pérez Hidalgo Invention for extracting gold from rivers and fishing oysters15 table 5. mills Date (Y/M/D) Inventor, Craftsman Instrument, Device, Technology 1569/08/24 Pedro Juan de Lastanosa, Improved mill16 royal servant 1577/10/21 Fulvio and Simón Genga, Invention of a flour mill17 from Urbino 1579/03/30 Jácome Valerio Two mills that used human force18 1579/05/31 Jorge Grambono, Mill19 from Rome 1580/10/14 Alfonso Sánchez Mill for metals20 Cerrudo, a clergyman (continued) 142 experiencing nature table 5. (continued) Date (Y/M/D) Inventor, Craftsman Instrument, Device, Technology 1587/02/18 Francisco Capuano, from Mill21 Sicily, and Matía Janer, from Barcelona 1607? Pedro de Avila Mill for metals22 table 6. navigational instruments Date (Y/M/D) Inventor, Craftsman Instrument, Device, Technology 1528/08/21 to Diego Ribeiro, royal Metal bilge pumps23 1531/10/13 cosmographer 1535/06/28 Vicente Barreros, Offer to make wooden bilge carpenter pumps, four times cheaper and safer than those made from metal by Ribeiro24 1540/01/31 Martín Sánchez de Lighter and simpler bilge Matienza pump than the current ones25 1559 Jácome Francisco Device for careening cheaper and more efficiently than other devices26 1572/03/05 Juan Alonso Instrument for taking altitude at any time of the day27 1573/02/17 Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, Instrument (a compass) for governor and captain finding longitudes28 general of Florida 1573/03/03 Licenciado Ruiz Instrument for taking altitudes29 1573/11/10 Pablo Matía Device for repairing ships30 1574/01/08 Juan de Herrera Several navigational instruments31 1586/08 Don Domingo de Navigational instrument Villarroel, clergyman (a sunglass)32 and cosmographer from Naples 1586/12/16 Don Mateo Vázquez de Device for careening ships33 Leca y Luchiano Appendix 2: Instruments 143 table 6. (continued) 1592/06/10 Pedro Grateo, a watch- Navigational instruments maker from France (asking for a license to make instruments)34 1599–1602 Andrés García de New, improved navigational Céspedes instruments35 1609/05/09 Luis de Fonseca Navigational instruments: a regular compass and a vertical compass36 1612/07/12 Juan Martines Compass that solves the problem of the variation37 table 7. instruments and technologies for exploiting metals Date (Y/M/D) Inventor, Craftsman Instrument, Device, Technology 1543/07/06 Jordan de Meçeta Bellows for smelting38 1554/05/10 Miguel Jerónimo Pallas New method for extracting silver39 1554/11/17 Bartolomé de Medina Method for extracting silver known as amalgamation40 1562/05/31 Pedro de Torre Instrument for smelting gold and silver without bellows41 1570/05? Benito de Morales New method for exploiting metals42 1572/04/30 Francisco de Acosta Device to make a more efficient use of mercury in the...