Antonio de Ulloa y la Nueva Espana: Descripcion Geografico-fisica de una parte de Nueva Espana de Antonio de Ulloa, y su Correspondencia privada con el virrey don Antonio Maria de Bucareli

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Author: Francisco de Paula Solano Pérez-Lila (1930-1996) Year: 1979 Publisher: Universidad de Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Place: Mexico City Description: clx+426 pages with frontispiece, tables, 20 plates (one folding), bibliography and indexes. Thick royal octavo (9" x 5") bound in beige cloth with black label and silver lettering to spine. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliograficas Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico, Series Fuentes, number 2. Limited to 2000 copies. First edition. This publication gathered facts and unpublished works of Antonio de Ulloa, one of the most relevant scientists and intellectuals of the Spanish Illustration. The present work rescues the mostly ignored brief presence (1776-1778) of this marine scientist in colonial Mexico and his scientific production through his documents: the study titled "Descripción de la Nueva España" and the transcriptions of his private correspondence (more than 150 letters) with Virrey Antonio Maria Bucarelli, archives kept at Real Academia de Historia (Madrid) and the Archivo General de Indias (Sevilla). Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville, the son of an economist. Ulloa entered the navy in 1733. In 1735 he was appointed with fellow Spaniard Jorge Juan a member of the French Geodesic Mission, a scientific expedition which the French Academy of Sciences was sending to Ecuador to measur

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