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Spanish botanist and mathematician. He determined the longitude of Bogota by the observation of an eclipse of a satellite of Jupiter and was a major influence on the construction of the national observatory. In March 1762, at the inauguration of the chair of mathematics at the Colegio del Rosario, he expounded the principles of the Copernican system and of the experimental method of science, leading to a confrontation with the church. In 1774 he had to defend the teaching of the principles of Copernicus, as well as natural philosophy and modern, Newtonian physics and mathematics, before the Inquisition. He was the first to explain Newton's theories in that part of America. Before the arrival of Mutis only elementary mathematics had been taught at the leading schools in Bogotá, the San Bartolomé and the Rosario.
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Colombia, 1000 pesos, 1971 |