Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian naturalist, executed by royalists in the war of independence (died 1816)

Francisco José de Caldas

Colombian lawyer and scientist (1768–1816)

Francisco José de Caldas was a Neogranadine lawyer, military engineer, self-taught naturalist, mathematician, geographer and inventor, who was executed by orders of General Pablo Morillo during the Spanish American Reconquista for being a forerunner of the fight for the…