The purpose of this article is to study the images included in the report made by the u.s. Navy Astronomical Expedition in the Southern Hemisphere between 1849 and 1852, directed by Navy lieutenant and astronomer James ...

This article analyses three different representations of Santiago of Chile produced around 7850 by the U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition lead by Lieutenant]ames Melville Gilliss a panoramic view from the summit of the ...

Between 1849 and 1852 the U.S. astronomer J.M. Gilliss led an expedition to Santiago, Chile, aimed at improving the accepted value for the solar parallax. Although this particular research project was not a success, the ...

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, ...

This article analyses three different representations of Santiago of Chile produced around 7850 by the U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition lead by Lieutenant]ames Melville Gilliss a panoramic view from the summit of the ...

Francisco José de Caldas hizo parte del grupo de criollos ilustrados que desempeñaron un papel destacado en el periodo anterior a la independencia de Nueva Granada. El neogranadino tenia gran afición por las ciencias, ...