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The Onset of Crisis: The 1750s The Onset of Crisis: The 1750s
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Siege and Disease Siege and Disease
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Two Be Content with Things at Which Nature Almost Revolted
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Published:November 2011
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This chapter focuses on Don Ignacio de Sola, the governor of Cartagena de Indias, who was the ranking official of the South American city that was the departure point for Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa's scientific expedition of 1735–46. As such, Sola knew that he was obligated to inform his superiors in Madrid about natural phenomena and other curiosities. So in spring 1752, he dutifully reported on the extremes of weather and the many misfortunes that had occurred throughout Spanish America over the past year. The governor wrote that unprecedented flooding had caused many casualties in Chile, in the Juan Fernandez Islands, in Peru, and in Guatemala. On the front lines of Spain's scientific revolution, he applied rudimentary principles of scientific method and drew a comparison between what happened in the Americas to a rare hurricane that came ashore on the Iberian peninsula near Cadiz.
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