Academia de Náutica del Consulado de Buenos Aires (1799-1806)

The school of mathematics and navigation that the merchant guild of Buenos Aires paid for out of its own funds, opened under the geographer-engineer Pedro Cerviño with fifteen pupils and closed by a royal order that called such establishments mere luxury. Its 1802 public examinations ran to 407 propositions before the viceroy, and its prizes were a sextant, an octant and Jorge Juan's navigation treatise.