The Mapmaker's Wife (55 page)

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