What is it about?
This article presents the discovery of a pre-Hispanic archaeological object from Ecuador in the collection of René-Just Haüy. It was send around 1760 to France by Joseph de Jussieu to his brothers and later give to Haüy by his nephews, Antoine-Laurent or Laurent-Pierre de Jussieu.
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Why is it important?
It was thought that all the objects collected by Joseph de Jussieu during his long stay in South America (1735-1771) had been lost. This discovery proves the contrary.
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This page is a summary of: The M de Jussieu’s ‘mirror of the Incas’: an ecuadorian archaeological artefact in the mineralogical collection of René-Just Haüy (1743-1822), Annals of Science, January 2022, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2022.2028900.
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