Wolframio - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 14:39:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Wolframio - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 File of information and passenger licence to the Indies of Juan José de Elhúyar https://historylab.es/file-of-information-and-passenger-licence-to-the-indies-of-juan-jose-de-elhuyar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=file-of-information-and-passenger-licence-to-the-indies-of-juan-jose-de-elhuyar Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:30 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/expediente-de-informacion-y-licencia-de-pasajero-a-indias-de-juan-jose-de-elhuyar/ File of information and passenger licence to the Indies of the scientist Juan José de Elhúyar to work in an American mine

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]]> Juan José de Elhuyar, a Spanish scientist born in Logroño, was, together with his brother Fausto de Elhuyar, the first to isolate tungsten. They were both granted a scholarship by the Spanish monarchy to study at different European universities. In 1784, he was sent to Santa Fe de Bogotá to work in the mines of Mariquita. This document contains a dossier of information and a passenger licence to the Indies from Juan José de Elhúyar, commissioner for the promotion of the mines of the New Kingdom of Granada, to Cartagena de Indias, with the following people: Angel Díaz, commissioner; Francisco Llamas, servant, born in Socuéllamos, son of Pablo and Isabel Poveda; Antonio Pastrana, servant, born in Buenos Aires, son of Julián and Agustina Jibaja.

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