The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
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Longitude, 10–11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 70, 82, 89, 102–103, 114, 125, 147, 188. See also Meridians
Loreto (mission station), 225, 226, 229, 230, 277, 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, 110, 183, 195
Maldonado, Pedro, 3, 89, 100, 101, 128, 163, 165, 171, 184, 188–189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 197–198, 209, 228, 300
death of, 198(n)
Maldonado, Ramon, 100, 101, 128
Manaos Indians, 190
Maps, 52, 62, 70, 77, 81, 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.)
Ptolemy’s map of the world, 10(illus.), 13
of Quito, 97(illus.), 163
See also under Amazon River
Marañón River, 182(n), 186–187, 192, 276–277. See also Amazon River
Margarita (island), 179
Marriage, 149, 151–152, 153, 160–161, 171, 172, 291, 294
Martel (Captain), 281, 283
Martín, Luis, 153
Martinez, Juan, 57
Martinique, 67–68
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de, 27, 29, 51, 70, 103, 126–127, 162, 166, 194, 300
Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux de (Count), 61, 100, 125, 300
Measurement standardization, 164, 167(illus.), 291
Mémoire sur differents bois dans l’ile de Cayenne (J. Godin), 208
Mémoire sur la navigation de l’Amazone (J. Godin), 206
Mendoza, José de (Marqués de Villagarcía), 72, 99, 100, 109, 113, 300
Meridians, 9, 18, 20, 25, 102, 119, 120, 131, 133, 147, 154, 162, 166. See also Longitude
Mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien dans l’hémisphere austral (La Condamine), 291
Meters, 164, 164(n)
Mexico, 38, 39, 179
Middle Ages, 11–12, 35, 36, 57, 142
Mission stations, 182–183, 192, 193, 200, 201, 225, 229, 230
Mita labor service, 138–140, 218, 289
Montezuma, 39
Moors, 34–36, 45
Morainville (engineer and assistant), 52, 118, 142, 156, 157, 169, 198, 287
Mosquitoes, 75, 76, 83, 84, 239, 248, 255–256, 270–271
laden with botfly eggs, 258
See also Insects
Mount Chimborazo, 171, 173(illus.), 173–174, 230
Mount Corazon, 122, 130
Mount Cotopaxi, 121
Mount Pelée, 67, 68
Mount Pichincha, 114–118, 122, 124, 164
Mount Sangay, 129, 130
Mount Tungurahua, 3, 184
Napo River, 176–177, 180
Netherlands, 60, 194. See also Holland
New Discovery of the Great River of the Amazons (Acuña), 181–182, 184
Newton, Sir Isaac, 21, 24–29, 51, 102, 126, 127, 166, 194, 300
Neyra, Nicolás de, 143–144, 146, 165, 186
Nono (village), 100
Norwood, Richard, 15, 24
Noticias Americanas (Ulloa), 290
Noticias secretas de América (Ulloa), 289
Noyce, Wilfrid, 271, 272–273
Observatories (astronomical), 134, 147, 164, 166. See also France, Paris observatory
Octants, 66–67
Omaguas (town), 265
Omaguas Indians, 177, 179, 180, 181, 183, 191, 192
Orellana, Francisco de, 43, 177, 178, 258
Oyapock, French Guiana, 219, 223, 281, 282, 283
Palm cabbage, 260
Panama City, 78
Pará (town), 179, 180, 181, 184, 191, 194, 201, 211, 214
Pardo de Figueroa, José Augustín (Marqués de Valleumbroso), 31, 32, 107, 156, 165–166
Pardo de Figueroa, Josefa, 31, 32, 217
Pascal, Blaise, 68
Passports. See under Godin, Jean
Pastaza River, 231, 232, 235, 238, 255, 275, 276
Pedro II (King of Portugal), 184
Pelletier family, 107–108, 160
Peña, Antonio, 265
Pendulum clocks, 16, 17(illus.), 19, 20, 24, 26, 103, 115, 121, 127, 148(illus.). See also Seconds pendulum
Peru, 31, 45, 53, 54, 56, 62, 76, 128, 137, 179
accounts of Peruvian society, 58–59
audiencias in, 88(n), 94, 95(illus.)
corrupt clergy in, 140–141
expulsion of Jesuits from, 228–229, 276
Huancavelica province, 289—290
racial mixtures in, 73–74
Spaniards in, 32, 45, 141, 151
Viceroyalty of Peru in 1650, 95(illus.)
viceroy of. See Mendoza, José de (Marqués de Villagarcía)
See also individual locations
Philip III (King of Spain), 16
Philip IV (King of Spain), 60
Philip V (King of Spain), 60–61, 61–63, 72, 94, 300
Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society of London), 27
Picard, Jean, 18, 19–20, 24, 300
Picot, Magdeleine, 294, 295
Pintado, Manuel, 71
Pinzón, Vicente Yáñez, 175
Pirates, 54, 69, 72, 194,k 198
Pizarro, Francisco, 40–42, 53, 54–55, 94, 171, 176
Pizarro, Gonzalo, 43, 176–177, 178, 235
Platinum, 163, 195
Plumb lines, 147(n), 149
Poison arrows, 189
Poleni (Marquis), 66
Pongo de Manseriche, 182, 185, 187, 188(illus.)
Portefaix (ship), 63, 65, 69
Porto Bello, Peru, 76–77, 199
Portugal/Portuguese, 176, 179–180, 181, 184, 191, 194, 201, 202, 203, 206, 212, 214, 220, 223, 229, 280, 283
Posidonius, 9, 11
Potosí, Peru, 288, 288(n)
Poverty, 73
Prayer, 271, 272, 273
Principia (Newton), 24–25
Principles of Philosophy (Descartes), 22
Printing press, 36
Ptolemy, Claudius, 11, 14
Puruhás Indians, 94, 170
Pyramid markers, 120, 155–156, 156(illus.), 165
Quadrants, 48, 117, 149
Quechua language, 94, 119, 120, 175, 201, 208, 209, 239, 274, 293
Quesada, Manuela, 136, 143
Quinquina/quinine110, 163, 195
Quito, Peru, 81, 82, 88, 91, 93–98, 112, 113, 128, 141, 149, 154, 157, 160, 165–166, 170, 178, 180, 198, 211, 265, 267
daily life in, 96
elites in, 107, 137, 161
Quitus Indians, 93–94
Racial mixtures. See under Peru
Rafts, 186, 187, 252–253, 263
Rain, 76, 84, 90, 105, 130, 148, 176, 186, 205, 234, 235, 237, 241, 244, 250, 261. See also Weather
Rain forest, 234, 239, 242, 247–248, 254–262
insects in, 255–257, 258, 262
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 54, 57, 58
Rebello (boat captain), 222–223, 224, 277, 279, 280, 281, 300
Refraction studies, 83, 128
Relacion historica del viage a la America Merídional (Ulloa and Juan), 197, 289
Relation abrégée d’un voyage fait dans l’intérieur de l’Amérique Méridionale (La Condamine), 286, 291
Requierimiento (document), 41–42, 54
Richer, Jean, 20, 24, 26, 194, 300
Ricour (ship captain), 65, 67
Riobamba, Peru, 1–2, 3, 125, 127–128, 129, 141, 170–175, 198, 210, 218, 226, 229, 230, 266, 267, 279, 285
Jean Godin’s attempt to return to, 211–215
local economy, 199, 217
> Río Negro River, 178, 191, 193
Rocha, Jean, 230, 243, 245–246, 247, 251, 262, 263, 265, 277–278, 279
Romances of chivalry, 36, 37–38, 152–153
Romero, Nicolás, 265, 277, 278, 279, 300
Rotenone, 191
Rouillé, Antoine-Louis, 202, 206, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 300
Rubber, 163, 191, 195
Rumiñahui, 94
Russian Academy of Sciences, 27
Sacred Theory of the Earth (Burnet), 25
Saint Domingue, 68, 70, 75
San Cristóbal (ship), 80, 82
Santa Fe de Bogotá, 155, 155(n)
Science, 8, 15, 23, 26, 48, 62, 95, 115, 122, 129, 190, 291
development of, 195
See also Expedition to equator, scientific equipment for
Seconds pendulum, 166, 167(illus.), 194. See also Pendulum clocks
Senièrgues, Jean, 52, 67, 69, 80–81, 135–137, 142, 287
murder of, 143–146, 148, 155, 185
Serrano, Sebastián, 136, 143–144, 146, 165
Seven Years War, 219–220
Sexuality, 142, 151, 153–154
Shackleton, Ernest, 272
Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, A (Las Casas), 54–55, 289
Shyri Nation, 94
Slavery/slaves, 45, 60, 63, 67, 76, 80, 89, 175, 206, 212, 215, 226, 226(n), 229, 244, 285
enslavement of Indians, 140, 180, 182, 193, 228
Smallpox, 40, 50, 191, 198, 226, 238, 244, 291
Snakes, 227–228, 228(n), 242, 247, 248, 251
Snell, Willebrord, 15, 24
Sound, speed of, 125, 163
Space, 22, 23(illus.)
Spain, 32, 34–38, 53–56, 60, 62, 69, 81, 94, 99, 100, 107, 166(n), 176, 179, 180, 181, 182, 199, 214, 229, 289, 290
Casa de Contratación, 53
labor legislation for colonies, 137–138. See also Mita labor service
Spanish Inquisition, 55, 61, 72
Spruce, Richard, 237, 238, 241, 251, 255–256
Starvation, 260–262. See also Dehydration
Stirling, James, 127
Strabo, 10, 11
Suarez, Antonio, 102
Suasti, Juan, 262, 263, 264–265, 275, 276, 301
Tapada, 153
Tarabita, 122
Tarqui, plain of, 133, 147, 148, 164, 184
Taxes, 152, 170, 199, 217
Teixeira, Pedro, 180, 181
Telescopes, 188
Tequendama Falls, 158, 159(illus.)
Teresa de Jesus of Ávila, Saint, 153
Textiles, 170, 172, 199, 217
They Survived: A Study of the Will to Live (Noyce), 271
Tiira, Ensio, 272
Time, measurement of, 11. See also Pendulum clocks
Tirant lo Blanch, 36, 38
Topo River, 237
Torricelli, Evangelista, 68
Travelogues, 56, 60, 75
Treatise of the Figure of the Earth (Eisenschmidt), 25
Treaty of Ryswick, 69
Treaty of Tordesillas, 176
Treaty of Utrecht, 26, 60, 157(n)
Triangulation, 14. 19–20, 53, 62, 114, 128, 129–130, 131–133
baseline for, 103, 104–106, 117, 155, 156(illus.), 166(n)
second baseline for, 131, 133
wooden pyramids and tents as markers for, 120
True History of the Conquest of New Spain (del Castillo), 39
Tungurahua volcano, 173–174, 232
Tupac Yupanqui, 94
Ulloa, Antonio de, 71–72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 84, 87, 96, 97–98, 105, 115, 116, 117, 122, 124, 137, 138–139, 144, 152, 227, 288
and Araujo, 112–113
dispute with La Condamine, 155–157
illness of, 125
post-expedition life and death of, 197, 289–290
Urquizu, Bruno de, 217
Ursúa, Pedro de, 179
Vautour (ship), 75, 76, 77
Velázquez, Diego, 38
Velvarde, Vincente de, 41, 42
Verguin, Jean, 52, 70, 77, 79, 103, 114, 118, 130, 156, 157, 163, 169, 198, 287
Vicuna, Gregorio, 142, 144
Villa Rica de Vera Cruz. 38
Violence, 137, 141, 142, 143–146
Virginity, 141, 152, 161
Virgin Mary, 174, 244
Visconti, Ignatius, 211, 225
Volcanoes, 115(n), 122, 129, 130, 131(illus.), 164, 171, 173–174, 232
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, 7, 28–29, 51, 126, 194, 195–196, 301
Von Hagen, Victor, 259
Vrillière, Louis Phélypeaux de, 292, 301
War of Jenkins’s Ear, 157(n), 166, 199
War of Spanish Succession, 20, 26, 60
Weather, 105–106, 116, 117, 119, 130, 135, 148, 171, 250, 270. See also Rain
West Indies, 67–68, 220
Whirlwinds, 106
Whiteness, 152, 154
Wildlife, 75, 78, 181, 189, 205, 234, 239, 242, 248–249, 251, 259
Women/girls, 34, 37, 229, 236–237
child brides, 151
Creole, 151–152
elite, 172
French, 160
Indian, 193
mulatto/mestizo, 153
Peruvian, 59, 72–73, 97–98, 107, 108, 166, 202, 267
sequestration of girls and women, 35, 45–46, 152, 153, 172
See also Amazons; Virginity
Woods, 208, 209
Yaruqui, plain of, 104, 106(illus.), 114, 117, 164
Yellow fever, 68–69
Zabala, Antonio, 267, 285–286
Zapater, Domingo, 279
Zaruma (town), 185–186
Zenith sectors, 147, 148(illus.), 154–155, 157, 161, 162, 164, 166