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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

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