Jesuit abbot
Juan Ignacio Molina publishes Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili[2] in Spain, the first account of the natural history of his native
Chile, describing many species to science for the first time (e.g., Araucaria araucana).
^Gillispie, Charles Coulston (1983). The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784. Princeton University Press. p. 21.
ISBN0-691-08321-5.
^Translated into English as The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chili, in two volumes.
Volume I,
Volume II.