Read The Mapmaker's Wife Online

Authors: Robert Whitaker

Tags: #History, #World, #Non-Fiction, #18th Century, #South America

The Mapmaker's Wife (54 page)

Jussieu, Joseph de,
52
,
67
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69
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71
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77
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78
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79
,
118
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129
,
145
,
157
,
198–199

return to Paris and death of,
288

Kepler, Johannes,
21
,
24

Knights,
34
,
35
,
36–38
,
39
,
45
,
59
,
152

Kricher, John,
257

La Cerda, Commander,
210

La Condamine, Charles-Marie de,
47
,
50–51
,
51(illus.)
,
51–52
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61
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63
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64
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65
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66
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67
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70–71
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80–81
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103
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110
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113
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114
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115
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120
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121
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128
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130
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136
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141
,
148–149
,
154
,
155

dispute with Ulloa and Juan,
155–157
,
165
eulogized,
292
final years,
290–292
illness of,
68–69
and Jean Godin.
See
Godin, Jean
, and
La Condamine
and murder of Senièrgues,
144
,
155
,
165
,
185
and Pardo de Figueroa,
107
publications by,
291
return to France,
194–197
and rubber/platinum/
quinquina
,
163
,
191
,
195
sale of personal belongings,
101–102
title page of book by,
196(illus.)
treatise on cinchona tree and leaves,
110–111
trip to Quito,
89–91
,
98–100
trunk of curiosities of,
158–159
voyage down Amazon River,
184–193

Laguna del Colta,
170

Laguna Ishpingococha,
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Lagunas (village),
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,
284

Lake Parima,
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190

Langlois, Claude,
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117

Languages,
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79
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128
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154
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201
,
216
.
See also
Quechua language

Lapland expedition,
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126
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128
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162
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166
,
167

Las Casas, Bartolomé de,
54

Latitude,
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18
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20–21
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29
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51
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70
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102–103
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126
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129

determining at sea,
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67
and measuring altitude of sun or star,
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147
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149
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154
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155
,
161–162
,
189

L’Aventure
(ship),
208
,
209

Leach, John,
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,
272–273

Lemaire, Marc,
295

Lemoyne (deputy to d’Orvilliers),
212
,
214

Leon, Diego de,
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146
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165
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186

León, Pedro Cieza de,
171

León Portocarrero, Pedro de,
59

Letters,
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214(n)
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279–280
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Letters of credit,
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109
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110
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113

Lettres philosophiques
(Voltaire),
28–29

Lima, Peru,
99
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110
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111–112
,
128
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155
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184
,
199

Liripamba (Inca town),
170–171

Loneliness,
125

Longitude,
10–11
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13
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15
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16
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18
,
19
,
70
,
82
,
89
,
102–103
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114
,
125
,
147
,
188
.
See also
Meridians

Loreto (mission station),
225
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226
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229
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230
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277
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279
,
280

Los Colorados Indians,
90

Louisiana,
290

Louis XIV (King of France),
16
,
19
,
60
,
300

Louis XV (King of France),
61–62
,
292
,
293
,
300

Luis de León, Fray,
142

Lunar eclipse,
82

Machiparos Indians,
177

Maclaurin, Colin,
146

Magdalena River,
158

Magnetic attraction at poles,
163

Malaria,
77
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110
,
183
,
195

Maldonado, Pedro,
3
,
89
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100
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101
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128
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163
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165
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171
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184
,
188–189
,
191
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192
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193
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194
,
197–198
,
209
,
228
,
300

death of,
198(n)

Maldonado, Ramon,
100
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101
,
128

Manaos Indians,
190

Maps,
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62
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70
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77
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81
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89
,
157
,
195

Christian,
11
,
12(illus.)
,
37
of colonial South America,
57–58
,
82
,
207(illus.)
of France,
18
,
19
,
21
of Henricus Martellus,
13(illus.)

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