54 исторические миниатюры и 29 переводов. Сборник (СИ)

Next morning the "Victoria" sailed upriver to Seville. (...) Seville and Spain had long since given up Magellan's fleet for lost, but here was the victorious ship proudly, triumphantly working her way upstream. At length, in the distance, shone the white bell-tower of La Giralda. It was Seville! It was Seville! "Fire the bombards!" shouted del Cano, and a salute resounded across the river. With the iron mouths of these guns, three years before, they had bidden farewell to Spain; with the same cannon they had solemnly greeted the Strait of Magellan, and again greeted the unknown Pacific. With the big guns they had saluted the newly discovered archipelago of the Philippines; as now, with the same thundering bombards, did they announce the completion of their duty on reaching Magellan's goal, the Spice Islands. Thus did they bid farewell to their comrades at Tidore, when the "Victoria" left the islands for Spain. But never did the iron voices sound so loud and so jubilant as now when they announced: "We have returned. We have done what no one ever did before us. We are the first circumnavigators of the world." [5A].

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We will sum up the brief intermediate totals.

The success of expedition of Magallanes became implementation of that cultural potential, a fundamentals which were created by Henry the Navigator, his seaworthy school.

Clearly are visible: discipline, planned use, regularity, tendency to reach the purposes, the aspiration to achieve an effective.

And not on the last place - rationality: by badly managed Victoria ship was brought the load of spices the value of which is compensate for the expenses of the expedition.

On one of stages the expedition was subject to iron will of Magallanes, but on other - strong will of del Cano. And any special breaches of discipline on "Trinidad" under leading of Gomez de Espinosa, does not find out.

Probably, at the first round-the-world expedition there were both an improvisation, and intuitivism, and suddenness, and luck, and steady tendency to achievement of success. (Magellan was confident in existence of a Strait, after called by his name (now - Strait of Magellan). Intuition?)

But the authors writing about this expedition on such concepts do not place a particular emphasis. On the front place - the purpose, a duty, discipline, cooperation, the drawn-up plan, intellectuality (navigation and other knowledge, skills, abilities), rational reasons, and - is a lot of, it is a lot of work. In common, all that is a cultural basis of existence of the fleet of long sea and ocean voyages.

6. Francis Drake (improvisation, intuitivism, individual talent, suddenness, steady tendency to achievement of success, luck)

The history gives not only Prince Henry the Navigator's example (accumulation of knowledge and experience, systemacity and regularity, planned use), but also Francis Drake's example (inspiration, suddenness, an intuition, luck).

Global cruise of Francis Drake (1577-1580), the second in world history, - largely - improvisation.

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Of course, a final result, but not a formal argument can be proof the correctness of a strategy based on inspiration, suddenness, intuition, fortune. The choice of such a strategy is a risk. And that risk falls upon the person who chooses this strategy.

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7. Brief epilogue

As we see, there is rather thin hardly perceptiblean edge between improvising, using of intuition, personal talents, suddenness and discipline.

It is possible to assume that partly artificial opposition of ORDER and IMPROVIZATSII characterizes one more common cultural problem: a problem of relationship of a hierarchical structure and the talented personality (this problem became one of subjects of our essay " Henry the Navigator and ship's logs, Heinrich Schliemann and diaries. An essay of a history of creativity of daily personal records)".

In the other essay - "Success and recognition. To the question of successful travels of Georgy Baydukov, Chay Blyth, Alain Bombard, Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky, Maxim Gorky, Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Joshua Slocum, Howard Hughes"") - is raised the question about "accumulation of success", achievable during an recognition of the successful persons and public consolidation in the course of an recognition of the achieved successes.

And yet another opinion: passed about five hundred years from the date of the beginning of the first round-the-world expedition, but interest in her does not disappear!

Moreover, authors continue attempts to disclose all new and new historical and biographic nuances connected with the round-the-world expeditions and people who performed them.

December 11, 2016, December 24, 2016.

8. List of information sources:

[1] Full text of "The First voyage round the world, by Magellan" (The First voyage round the world, by Magellan by Pigafetta, Antonio). (English-language publication. Web Publishing.).

Digitized: Internet Arciiive, 2011. http://www.archive:org/details/firstvoyageroundOOpiga