Cosmographers in 16th Century Spain and America

Among the noted cosmographers of the epoch we have

Antonio Céspedes,
Juan López de Velasco
Alonso de Santa Cruz
Rodrigo de Zamorrano

In America, we have notice of the experiments of Dr. Farfán and Jaime Juan. They both participated in the observations of the lunar eclipses in the years, 1578, 1582 and 1584. We also have the records by Juan Palomares of the observation, in Panama, of the eclipse of 1578.

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