Simón Benítez Padilla

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Simón Benítez Padilla (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1890-1976) mastered different disciplines, such as Geology, History, and poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries. He published: Nuestro Tomás Morales, Una breve excursión científica por Gran Canaria or Gran Canaria y sus obras hidráulicas , his magnum opus, commissioned by the Gran Canaria Cabildo and which still today holds great scientific value.

“By all roads, even that of botanical history and archaeology, one arrives at the same starting point...”

(Gran Canaria and its hydraulic works)

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