SCIENCE, NAUTICS AND MEN IN THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION
Abstract
This is the historical relationship of a personal ambition, that of Magellan, and the determined support of various characters, of a commercial vision, that of the Crown and individuals and made up of 265 personal stories. In them we find the best and the worst of the human being: courage, willpower, perseverance, spiritual sense, love for the unknown, passion for new cultures, lands, discoveries and also… fear, betrayal, cowardice, greed and lust. Each of these virtues and defects have their own names and surnames. We will see them in the episodes that mark this adventure in its organization, financing and results, whose main milestones were: the gestation of the expedition in Seville Burgos, Valladolid ... the preparation in Seville, the departure from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, navigation to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Brazil, San Julián, the passage and the discovery of the long-awaited Strait, which would allow to reach the islands of spices, the ultimate objective of the trip, navigation through the Pacific, the meeting of the San Lázaro islands. , the death of Magellan and finally the return.
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