Antonio de León y Gama

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Mexican anthropologist and astronomer

Mexico ScientistsLived 1735 to 1802 · aged 67

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Antonio de León y Gama (1735-1802) was a Mexican astronomer, anthropologist and writer.

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Illustration depicting an ancient Mexican calendar, of Antonio de León y Gama's book on the discovery of the sun stone. Digitally restored

Title page of León y Gama's book

Scientists from Mexico 6

Maximino Martínez43.2 Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé41.9

Luis Enrique Erro43.4 Pablo de La Llave41.4

Jorge Cuesta43.6 José Árbol y Bonilla41.0

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Antonio de León y Gama (1735-1802) was a Mexican astronomer, anthropologist and writer. When in 1790 the Aztec calendar stone was discovered buried under the main square of Mexico City, he published an essay about it, Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México, se hallaron en ella el año de 1790 explaining the functioning of Aztec calendars.

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