{"id":5206,"date":"2009-10-18T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T10:26:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T08:25:44","slug":"joan-binimelis-and-defence-towers-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/en\/our-people\/joan-binimelis-and-defence-towers-mallorca.html","title":{"rendered":"Joan Binimelis and defence towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-5185\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/joan-binimelis_1.jpg\" alt=\"joan-binimelis_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"102\" \/>Joan Binimelis y Garcia (Manacor, 1538 &#8211; Palma, 1616) was a Mallorcan priest, doctor, historian, geographer and astronomer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5190 size-full\" style=\"margin: 20px 20px 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Joan Binimelis and defence towers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/joan-binimelis_2.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Binimelis and defence towers\" width=\"300\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/joan-binimelis_2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/joan-binimelis_2-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He studied in Mallorca and later moved to Valencia to study medicine. After returing to Mallorca, was ordained a priest and obtained certain posts and privileges within the Mallorcan diocese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amongst his writings are works on mathematics, medicine, astronomy and history in Catalan, Spanish and Latin. Almost all these texts have been passed on through handwritten means and some have been lost. He is most well-known for \u201cHist\u00f2ria nova de l\u2019illa de Mallorca\u201d, the first exclusively-Mallorcan chronicle. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5195 size-full\" style=\"margin: 20px 20px 10px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Joan Binimelis and defence towers, Cala Pi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.masmallorca.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/joan-binimelis_3.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Binimelis and defence towers, Cala Pi\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Defence towers<\/strong><br \/>\nJoan Binimelis designed a watchtower system that, together with a code of signals, was the only defence system in existence in Mallorca until the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5200 size-full\" style=\"margin: 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