Siguenza y Góngora, Carlos (de)
Reference work entry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1278
Born Mexico City, (Mexico), possibly 14 August 1645
Died Mexico City, (Mexico), 22 August 1700
Native‐born Mexican scholar Carlos de Siguenza was honored with the title of Royal Cosmographer. His Libra Astronomica (1690) includes a rational discussion of comets, the purpose of which was to allay fears inspired by the great comet C/1680 V1.
Selected Reference
- Leonard, Irving (1929). Don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora: A Mexican Savant of the Seventeenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
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