In Havana, in the stone compound of the Colegio de Belén, a Spanish Jesuit priest named Benito Viñes had spent more than two decades developing a method for tracking tropical cyclones while they were still at sea. He had arrived in Cuba in 1870, sent to teach the sons of Havana’s elite, and within five years had produced something no institution on the …
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