The United Nations Educational, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) registered 74 new collections of documentary heritage yesterday in its registration of the world’s memory, with which the total amounts to 570. The collections, from 72 countries, including Mexico, and four international organizations, deal with the scientific revolution and the contribution of women to history, or narrate the great stages of the great stages of Multilateralism.
Unesco detailed in a statement that the registration contains documentary collections, including books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, recordings or videos, which testify to the common heritage of humanity. According to the agency’s general director, Audrey Azoulay, Documentary heritage is an essential and fragile element of the world’s memory.
From Mexico, the aerial photography series of the Associated Civil Engineers Foundation (ICA) were included, an archive that records about 70 percent of the Mexican territory and are Tomas from 1932 to 1994, which offer portraits of the passage of humanity and its impact.
Fourteen of the new registered collections are part of the scientific documentary heritage. Among them, the Ithaf Al Mahbub (Egypt), contribution of the Arab world to the fields of astronomy during the first millennium of our era. The Friedrich Nietzsche (Germany) archives were also registered; by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (Germany), with the first registered photographs of X -rays, and Carlos Chagas (Brazil), a pioneer in the investigation of diseases.
By Charles Darwin (United Kingdom), who raised the theory of evolution by natural selection and thus revolutionized the understanding of the nature and place of humanity in it, the collection of its first investigations was inscribed during the trip on the ship Beagle and the development of his theory, his observations, experiments, collaborations; Photographs, correspondence and notebooks are included, which are preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge, English Heritage (Down House), the Natural History Museum, the Linnean Society, the Royal Botanical Garden of Kew and the John Murray Archive of the National Library of Scotland.
▲ Darwin page, CR, 1837-1838. Notebook B: (Species transmutation), Edited by John Van Wyhe.Photo http://darwin-online.org.uk/
There is also the Bianzhong of Marqués Yi de Zeng (China), a set of old Chinese bronze bells discovered in the tombs of Marqués Yi de Zeng in 1978, in the city of Suizhou, province of Hubei. The bells date from 2,400 years ago and present inscriptions that represent the only known documents of musical theory of the 5th century, which demonstrate the relationship of mathematics in music.
Other records include collections related to the memory of slavery, presented by Angola, Aruba, Cabo Verde, Curacao and Mozambique, as well as archives of prominent historical women, still largely sub -present in the registry, such as the pioneer of the education of the Raden Ajen Kartini (Indonesia and the Netherlands) and the travel writers Annemarie Schwarzenbach and she Maillart (Switzerland).
There are also collections of key milestones in international cooperation, such as Geneva (1864-1949) and its protocols (1977-2005, Switzerland), the International Charter of Human Rights (United Nations) and the 1991 Windhoek statement (Namibia), world reference on press freedom.
The Unesco world memory program, established in 1992, has the purpose of promoting the preservation of humanity documentary heritage and guaranteeing universal access to it.