Fuentes para el estudio de las ciencias exactas en Colombia
By: Celina Ana Lértora Mendoza.
Series: Colección Enrique Pérez-Arbeláez ;; no. 9
Publisher: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Santa Fé de Bogotá
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Science -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Spanish -- Colombia -- Early works to 1800.
Description: "Transcriptions, accompanied by short introductions, of mining and mineralogical treatises from Luis Sánchez de Aconcha (1616), Angel Díaz (1803), and Juan José D'Elhuyar (1786). Collection focuses on late-18th-century mining reform with Díaz's study of the Supía silver mines in Popayán and Elhuyar's description of the emerald mines of Muzo"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-314).