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The Brain Behind the Galleon | Colombia News
Forget the gold—this episode dives into the genius behind the San Jose galleon, a 1708 shipwreck loaded with treasure from Peru. But Colombian archaeologist Ricardo Borrero Londoño isn’t chasing coins; he’s decoding the ship’s engineering, revealing how Iberian galleons were built using advanced math and geometry centuries before Descartes. His groundbreaking research, featured in a new two-volume book, blends underwater archaeology with intellectual history to show that shipbuilding was at the forefront of Europe’s scientific revolution. It’s a story of craftsmanship, cosmography, and pure…
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