The Mapmaker's Wife (52 page)

Entretiens sur la pluralisté des mondes
(Fontenelle),
23

Eratosthenes,
9

Escabo, Manuel de,
102

Esmeraldas/Esmeraldas River,
89
,
93
,
163

Expedition to equator,
29–30
,
47
,
51–52
,
290

end of,
169–170

illness/deaths during,
68–69
,
104
,
115
,
125
,
157
,
198

letters to,
125
,
126

members of,
52
,
63
,
287–288
,
297

money problems of,
100–101
,
109
,
125
,
158
,
170

scientific equipment for,
48
,
52
,
63
,
66–67
,
76
,
79
,
90
,
95
,
115
,
147

Spanish conditions for,
62–63

tensions among leaders of,
70–71
,
78
,
80–81
,
125
,
157
,
184

voyage to Quito,
69(illus.)

Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo,
61

Ferdinand III (Castilian king),
35

Fernel, Jean,
14

Fiedmont (Governor),
219
,
222–223
,
224
,
283
,
299–300

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de,
23
,
26
,
27–28

Food(s),
78
,
79
,
90
,
96
,
161
,
172
,
177
,
178
,
181
,
232
,
235
,
243
,
246
,
250
,
252
,
254
,
275

in rain forests,
258–260

Forsyth, Adrian,
256

Fort Curupa,
202
,
281

France,
25
,
26
,
36
,
54
,
69
,
108
,
142
,
160
,
175
,
179
,
206–207
,
214
,
219
,
229

arrival of Jean and Isabel Godin in,
286

Compagnie Royale de la Mer Pacifique,
60

French Academy of Sciences,
7
,
8
,
16–18
,
20
,
22
,
25–26
,
27
,
28
,
20
,
47
,
48
,
66
,
111
,
119
,
126
,
194
,
197
,
198
,
208
,
287
,
288
,
292
,
297

overseas empire of,
220

Paris,
8
,
14
,
18

Paris observatory,
18
,
19(illus.)

See also under
Maps

Franciscan monks,
180

French Guiana,
2
,
3
,
61
,
202
,
205–206
,
292

colonists sent to,
220

See also
Guiana
;
individual towns

Frezier, Amadée,
59

Frisius, Gemma,
14

Fritz, Samuel,
183–184
,
194

Froidevaux, Henri,
209

Galelei, Galileo,
15–16
.
18
,
22

Games,
174

Gnomon,
189

Godin, Isabel,
2–3
,
149

death of,
295

described,
4
,
154
,
281

illness of,
284

and Jean Rocha,
277–278
,
279

journey to meet Jean Godin,
3–5
,
229–242

letter concerning Joaquín’s freedom,
279–280

maids of,
230
,
252

members of traveling party,
298

nephew of,
294

pregnancies/children of,
161
,
169
,
170
,
175
,
200
,
211
,
215–216
,
217
,
218
,
226
.
298

properties owned by,
172
,
217
,
229

religious faith of,
218
,
244
,
271
,
273
,
278

reunion with Jean Godin,
281–282

statue of,
2

stranded on sandbars and in rain forest,
242–255
,
257–258
,
261–262
,
269–271

See also
Gramesón, Isabel

Godin, Jean,
2–3
,
52–53
,
64
,
79
,
86
,
107
,
108
,
114
,
149
,
156
,
157–161
,
198
,
253
,
254
,
266
,
279

attempt to return to France,
199–203
.
See also
Godin Jean, passports for

brother of,
286

business ventures of,
170
,
175
,
219
,
283
,
284
,
285
,
292

death of,
294

inventory of Cayenne forests by,
208

and La Condamine,
169
,
200
,
201
,
208
,
210
,
219–220
,
286
,
292–293
,
295

marriage of,
160–161

as official geographer of expedition,
293

passports for,
202
,
208
,
209
,
210
,
211–212
,
215
,
219

proposal that France seize northern banks of the Amazon,
206–208
,
212–214
,
220–221

reunion with Isabel Godin,
281–282

as signal carrier,
118–120
,
130
,
158
,
169

will of,
293–294

See also under
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de

Godin, Louis,
29
,
47–49
,
51
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
70–71
,
77
,
78
,
80–81
,
95
,
98
,
100–101
,
103
,
109
,
114
,
147
,
157
,
158
,
198
,
287–288