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A Voyage to South America - Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, etc. on that Extensive Continent (Paperback)
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A Voyage to South America - Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, etc. on that Extensive Continent (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Latin American Studies, Volume 2
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Antonio de Ulloa (1716-95) was a Spanish scientist and
mathematician. In 1734 he was asked by Philip V of Spain to join
the French geodesic expedition to measure the circumference of the
Earth at the equator, and accordingly in 1735 Ulloa and his fellow
scientist Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713-73) travelled to South
America, staying until 1744. These volumes contain the English
translation of Ulloa's account of South America, first published in
1758. The work was very popular, producing five subsequent
editions: this reissue is of the fourth edition of 1806. It
provides insights into the social, religious and economic
institutions of colonial South America. Volume 2 contains
descriptions of the cities and provinces of Lima, Concepcion (in
Chile) and Buenos Aires and of the British colony of Boston,
visited on the return journey, together with the first ethnological
description in English of the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
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