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NATURALISTIC SCOPES OF AN ASTRONOMICAL EXPEDITION: JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF SCIENCE IN CHILE (1849-1852)
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST HISTORIA, 2019)
In 1849 the U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition, headed by Lieutenant James Melville Gilliss, arrived in Chile with the mission to register observations that, triangulated with those carried out in the northern hemisphere, ...
Verdot (Grosse Merille). An Old and Rare French Variety, Heritage of the Chilean Viticulture
(UNIV SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 2018)
It is briefly described the various introductions of Vitis vinifera L. in Chile and its expansion in the territory, as well as the predominance of the French paradigm in its more recent development. From the beginning of ...
The beautiful or useful. Ideologies in dispute about the creation of the first architectural university course in Chile, 1848-1853
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST HISTORIA, 2018)
In 1849 the first university architecture course in Chile was founded at the University of Chile. Although local historiography has established that the orientation of the course was, at its roots, Beaux-Arts style this ...
Paradise and Perdition: Jesuit Visions of Santiago, Chile, before and after the Earthquake of 1647
(DUKE UNIV PRESS, 2019)
This study inserts Santiago, Chile, into contemporary discussions of colonial Latin America by reading two Jesuit documents-a map and a letter-created prior to and following the devastating earthquake of 1647, respectively. ...