Ur, la ciudad de los caldeos

In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.

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Simón de Rojas Clemente y Rubio (Titaguas, 1777-Madrid, 1827) es un referente para la ciencia de la Ilustración española. Inicialmente encaminado a la profesión eclesiástica, se enriquece con el estudio del naturalismo, particularmente de la botánica (fue alumno de Cavanilles). Amplió sus estudios en París y Londres, y realizó un viaje por Andalucía que le permitió realizar su «Historia natural del Reino de Granada». Fue bibliotecario del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, y después de años de investigaciones y penurias, fue diputado en las Cortes durante el Trienio Liberal. Con la...