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#MineralMonday Antonio de Ulloa menciona en 1748 el descubrimiento de la "platina" del río Pinto. Era un término despectivo que aludía al #platino, una plata menos valiosa que se usaba para adulterar el oro de las ricas arenas de los ríos del Chocó #Colombia. #Geología #Minerales

#OTD in 1808 the Spanish botanist José Celestino Mutis died in Bogotá. He led the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Granada that lasted for thirty-four years and collected more than 20,000 plants and 5000 drawings of plants that he sent to Spain #HistSci #Colombia #Botany #SciArt

#FolkloreThursday This bug, Fulgora lanternaria, is endemic to Central and South America. Locals call it the machaca and so the saying goes, if you are bitten by one then you must find and marry the nearest woman or else you will surely die. #Archives #Entomology #NatHist #SciArt

En la expedición geodésica para medir un arco de meridiano en el Ecuador (1735-1746), la observación del paisaje en las tierras ecuatorianas permitió a Jorge Juan y Antonio de Ulloa ofrecer un primer bosquejo de lo que más tarde se llamarían pisos de vegetación. #Botany #HistSci

Drawings of mammals collected during the expedition to the Pacific (1862-1865). #PacificScientificCommission #Mammals #19thCentury #HistCol #HistSci #SciArt #ScientificIllustration #NatHist #Museums #ComisiónCientíficaPacífico

#250MNCN The director of MNCN #Graells regretted that the study of insect larvae had not generally received as much attention from entomologists as that of their adult stage. In 1850 he described the #metamorphosis of the longhorn beetle (Agapanthia irrorata). #Beetles #SciArt

#BotanicMonday For centuries there was a close relationship between art and science. An example is scientific expeditions in past centuries, in which the artists were essential to show the animals and plants overseas as faithfully as possible. #SciArt #Birds #Butterflies #Museums

This #coral from the Neogene of Caniles (Granada) (c. 23 - 5,3 Ma) was collected in 1804 by the #botanist Simón de Rojas Clemente (1777-1827). Between 1804 and 1809 he made a trip to Andalucía to study the #NatHist of the Kingdom of #Granada. #Fossils #HistCol #HistSci #Museums

#FolkloreThursday The modern practice of keeping #pets originated in European courtly and aristocratic circles between 16th and 18th centuries. The favorite pet of Carlos III was the Balabac chevrotain (Tragulus nigricans) from Philippines. They are the smallest extant ungulates.

#MineralMonday Vanadinite is a fairly rare mineral that owes its name to its high vanadium content. It was discovered by the Spanish Andrés del Río in a lead deposit in Mexico. #Humboldt brought the first samples of the mineral to Europe. #Geology #HistSci #NatHist #Museums