The Mapmaker's Wife (51 page)

son of (Jacques),
19–20
,
21
,
102
,
103
,
126
,
194
,
299

Caste system,
74
,
140

Castillo, Bernal Díaz del,
39
,
54

Cathedrals/churches,
94
,
96
,
171

Catholic Church,
21
,
22
,
36
,
39

and child brides,
151

See also
Christianity
;
Jesuits
;
Virgin Mary

Cayambe, plain of,
103
,
104

Cayenne, French Guiana,
194
,
202
,
206
,
208
,
214
,
215
,
285

Celestial observations.
See
Latitude, and measuring altitude of sun or star

Censorship,
55–56

Chagres River,
77
,
78
,
79(illus.)

Chambo River,
231

Chapetones,
112

Charles II (King of Spain),
60
,
69

Chastity,
37

Chatas
(barges),
77–78

Châtelet, Gabrielle-Émilie du,
28

Children,
73
,
74
,
128
,
151
,
170
.
See also
Convent schools

Choiseul, Étienne-François de,
220
,
220(n)
,
221
,
222
,
283
,
284
,
299

Choiseul-Praslin, Cesar-Gabriel de,
284
,
299

Christianity,
8
,
11
,
37
,
174
,
182
,
218
.
See also
Catholic Church
;
Huguenots

Chronicle of Don Roderick
,
38

Chuchunga River,
186

Cinchona trees,
110–111
,
186
,
194
,
195
,
212

Clairaut, Alexis-Claude,
27
,
51
,
126
,
127
,
299

Clothing,
97–98
,
98(illus.)
,
101
,
102
,
193
,
251
,
254
,
262
,
276

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste,
16
,
17

Columbus, Christopher,
13
,
67

Compasses,
12–13
,
189

Concubines,
45
,
229

Condorcet, Jean,
50

Conquistadors,
38–43
,
54
,
82
,
89
,
176

cruelty of,
55
,
56(illus.)

Contraband, selling of,
112(n)

Convent schools,
34
,
46
,
108
,
151
,
217

Copernicus, Nicholas,
21

Corregidors,
33
,
88
,
138
,
146
,
217
,
279

Cortés, Hernando,
38–40
,
54

Couplet (expedition assistant),
52
,
53
,
79
,
98
,
103–104
,
287

Creoles,
32
,
45
,
112
,
113
,
140
,
141
,
151
,
157
,
161

Crespo, Juan Jiménez,
136–137
,
142
,
143

Cuba,
38

Cuenca, Peru,
129
,
131
,
134
,
135–137
,
142
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
149
,
165
,
185

Curare,
189

Cuzco region,
40
,
42

Daniel, João,
182
,
193

Davalos, Joseph,
128

Dehydration,
261
,
270–271

Delille, Jacques,
197

Desaguliers, John Theophilus,
27

Descartes, René,
8
,
22–23
,
24
,
27
,
28
,
299

D’Herouville (Count),
222
,
225
,
299

Diguja, Joseph,
265–266
,
299

Discourse on Method
(Descartes),
8
,
22

Discourses on Two Sciences
(Galileo),
22

Discurso y reflexiones políticos sobre el estado presente de los reynos del Peru
(Ulloa),
289

Disease,
76–77
,
182
,
206
.
See also
Malaria
;
Smallpox
;
Yellow fever

Donner Party,
261(n)

D’Oreasaval, Tristan,
225
,
226
,
277
,
284–285
,
299

D’Orvilliers, Gilbert Guillouet,
202
,
206
,
209
,
211
,
212
,
214
,
299

Dowries,
160
,
172

Drake, Sir Francis,
72

Dunezat (commander of Cayenne),
214–215

Dutch Guiana,
194

Earth

circumference of,
9–10
,
11
,
13
,
18
,
20
,
24
,
62
,
102
,
103

rotation of,
194

size/shape of,
7
,
8–9
,
11
,
12
,
14
,
15
,
20
,
21
,
24
,
25–26
,
29
,
30
,
51
,
61
,
62
,
70
,
102–103
,
126
,
162
,
166
,
194

Eclipses,
163

Eisenschmidt, Samuel,
25

El Cid,
35

El Dorado,
57
,
58
,
175
,
176
,
179
,
190

Elites,
152
,
172
,
199
,
218
,
227
.
See also under
Quito

Emeralds,
82–83
,
101

Encomienda system,
39
,
54
,
137

England,
25
,
26
,
36
,
54
,
60
,
179
,
199
,
220

British Armada,
157
,
159

Royal Society of London,
27
,
66
,
197

Enlightenment movement,
7–8
,
36
,
122
,
142
,
167
,
190