Pedro Vicente Maldonado

Pedro Vicente Maldonado
Portrait of Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1936), by Enrique Gomezjurado, in Alberto Mena Caamaño Museum, Quito, Ecuador.
Born
Pedro Vicente Maldonado Palomino y Flores

(1704-11-24)November 24, 1704
DiedNovember 7, 1748(1748-11-07) (aged 43)
Occupation(s)Horseman of the Golden Key
Gentleman of the Camera
Lieutenant of Magistrate
Governor of the Emerald Province
Mayor of the City of Riobamba
Known forThe Spanish-French Geodesic Mission
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Pedro Vicente Maldonado y Flores (November 24, 1704 in Riobamba, Royal Audience of Quito (today's Ecuador) – November 7, 1748 in London, England) was an Ecuadorian scientist who collaborated with the members of the French Geodesic Mission. As well as a physicist and a mathematician, Maldonado was an astronomer, topographer, and geographer.