Oscar Matsuura – “O Mito Friburguense na Biografia de

E. W. Gudger: George Marcgrave, the first
student of American natural history, The
Popular Science Monthly, 81, 250-274,
September 1912
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“Be that as it may, Marcgrave
certainly rose rapidly in the esteem of
his chief, for we find that the latter
built for him in 1639 in the city of
Mauritia an astronomical observatory
of stone from which Marcgrave studied
the motions of the stars, their risings
and settings, their sizes, distances and
other phenomena( 5 )”. (253)