Alonso Alvaro Barba ( Spanish: Álvaro Alonso Barba ; 1569 - 1662 ) - Spanish metallurgist and chemist.
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| Scientific field | metals |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Literature
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born November 15, 1569 in Andalusia.
After studying theology, he went to the West Indies , where he served as a priest in Peru . It is known that in 1615 he was in Tiwanaku , later in San Cristóbal de Lípez (now the department of Potosí ). Then he was in Bolivia , where he began to conduct his first research on amalgamation . He traveled to the countries of the West Indies, explored natural resources, was in mines, was engaged in ore dressing and extraction of metals from them.
For some time he returned to Spain, but returned to Bolivia, where he died in 1662 (according to other sources in 1661)).
He was known for his work Arte de los Metales , published in Madrid in 1640, which was reprinted in French and English.
Literature
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the 18th – 21st centuries: Geology and mining. / Ans. Editor I. G. Malakhova. M.: GC RAS , 2012 .-- 504 p. ISBN 978-5-904509-08-8 (electronic version).
- Josep M. Barnadas . Alvaro Alonso Barba (1569-1662): Investigaciones sobre su vida y obra (Spanish) // Isis (journal) : diario. - 1988 .-- Diciembre ( v. 79 , n o 4 ). - P. 730-731 . - DOI : 10.1086 / 354900 .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 124445993 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
Links
- Álvaro Alonso Barba (Spanish)