The maps of the navigation project of the Tagus of Carlos Simón Pontero (1755) (original) (raw)

ABSTRACT The maps of the navigation project of the Tajo Tagus of Carlos Simón Pontero (1755).- The engineers José Briz and Pedro Simó made several maps for the Carlos de Simón Pontero's project about the navigation of the rivers Tajo, Guadiela, Jarama and Manzanares in 1755. This article analyzes this cartographic production, which was believed to be lost. In addition, it presents and studies two maps: an original one by Briz and Simó, about the Tajo and Guadiela, and a first copy of the whole project, by 1769.