Francisco José de Caldas (1768-1816): the creole who ran the Bogotá observatory and printed its numbers

A creole from Popayan who held three crown scientific posts at once - member of the Royal Botanical Expedition, keeper of the Bogota observatory, professor of mathematics at the Colegio del Rosario - and who used a weekly paper to print barometric altitudes, a lunar eclipse and monthly weather tables for the viceroyalty. A Spanish general had him shot in 1816. The volume argued from here is the Paris edition of 1849 that his countrymen printed to recover him.