Cosme Bueno (1711-1798), cosmógrafo mayor of Peru

An Aragonese who reached Lima at nineteen, took a medical doctorate there, won a chair by competitive examination and held the office of chief cosmographer of the kingdom for forty years. His annual almanacs carried two things: physico-mathematical dissertations, and a province-by-province description of the viceroyalty that he assembled from the reports of corregidores. His eulogist is a disciple, and prints his faults too.