Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora

Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora was born in Mexico City in August 1645, the son of a former tutor of Prince Baltasar Carlos who had moved to New Spain and of a relative of the poet Luis de Góngora. Having entered the Jesuits, he was dismissed from them for indiscipline at the end of the 1660s and remained a secular priest. In 1672 he obtained at the University of Mexico the chair of mathematics and astrology, which he held for more than twenty years; chaplain, royal cosmographer, collector of codices, he fought the fears aroused by the comet of 1680 against the Jesuit Kino and recounted the Mexico City riot of 1692. He died in Mexico City on 22 August 1700.

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