Un país de chiste

Esta importante obra histórica relata desde un ángulo no convencional la historia de los pioneros de la aviación que dedicaron sus vidas, y a menudo sus fortunas, a la evolución del aeroplano tal como existe hoy en día. Ya en noviembre de 1809 Sir George Cayley publicó un ensayo magistral prácticamente inventando el avión. Permaneció olvidado durante 62 años, hasta que fue encontrado por Alphonse Pénaud. En agosto de 1871 Pénaud voló su Planoforo, el primer modelo que se asemejaba a un avión moderno. Había descubierto el secreto de la estabilidad longitudinal inherente. La...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

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Reuni n de trabajos, fruto del di logo y de las controversias que genera el estudio de fen menos culturales concretos entre los historiadores del mundo hisp nico de la Edad Moderna: el encuentro y simbiosis intelectual de dos mundos distantes y pr ximos a la vez.