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Jussieu, Joseph de,
52
,
67
,
69
,
71
,
77
,
78
,
79
,
118
,
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
,
61
,
63
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
67
,
70–71
,
76
,
77
,
78
,
79
,
80–81
,
82
,
83
,
96
,
103
,
110
,
113
,
114
,
115
,
120
,
121
,
128
,
130
,
136
,
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,
249

Lagunas (village),
183
,
184
,
188
,
191
,
225
,
265
,
276
,
277
,
284

Lake Parima,
58
,
190

Langlois, Claude,
48
,
117

Languages,
53
,
79
,
128
,
154
,
201
,
216
.
See also
Quechua language

Lapland expedition,
70
,
126
,
127
,
128
,
162
,
166
,
167

Las Casas, Bartolomé de,
54

Latitude,
10
,
11
,
13
,
14
,
18
.
19
,
20–21
,
29
,
51
,
70
,
91
,
102–103
,
114
,
126
,
129

determining at sea,
66
,
67
and measuring altitude of sun or star,
133
,
147
,
148
,
149
,
154
,
155
,
161–162
,
189

L’Aventure
(ship),
208
,
209

Leach, John,
271
,
272–273

Lemaire, Marc,
295

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

Leon, Diego de,
136
,
146
,
165
,
186

León, Pedro Cieza de,
171

León Portocarrero, Pedro de,
59

Letters,
125
,
126
,
203
,
208
,
209–210
,
211
,
214(n)
,
214–215
,
216
,
219–220
,
221
,
222
,
224
,
225
,
277
,
278
,
279–280
,
283
,
284
,
286
,
292
,
295

Letters of credit,
100
,
109
,
110
,
113

Lettres philosophiques
(Voltaire),
28–29

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

Liripamba (Inca town),
170–171

Loneliness,
125

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.)
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