Alzate, José Antonio

Alzate, José Antonio
Alzate, José Antonio
Seventeenth century priest born at Ozumba, Mexico

Catholic Encyclopedia. . 2006.

Alzate, José Antonio
    José Antonio Alzate
     Catholic_Encyclopedia José Antonio Alzate
    Born at Ozumba, Mexico, in 1738; died in 1799. Alzate, who was a priest, was one of the most zealous students of liberal sciences in New Spain in the seventeenth century. More than thirty treatises on various subjects are due to his pen. Astronomy, physics, meteorology, antiquities, metallurgy, were among the topics on which he wrote, but he also devoted serious attention to certain branches of industry. Thus the growing of silk in Mexico was the subject of several of his papers. He wrote a dissertation on the use of ammonia in combating mephitic gases in abandoned mines, and also prepared maps of New Spain (Mexico). He was frequently opposed, even reviled, at home, but the French Academy of Sciences made him a corresponding member, and the viceroys of Mexico and the archbishops entrusted him with sundry scientific missions. In 1768 he began the publication, at Mexico, of a newspaper, the "Diario literario de México". His description of the ruins of Xochicalco is the first notice published of these interesting ruins. He also wrote a commentary upon the work of Clavigero on aboriginal Mexico and the natural history of that country.
    Anales del museo nacional de Mexico; Beristain de Souza, Biblioteca hispano-americana setentrional (Mexico, 1816); Humboldt, Vues des Cordilleres et monuments indigenes.
    AD. F. BANDELIER
    Transcribed by J. Christopher McConnell

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


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