At the end of the 19th century, radioactivity was discovered. In these years Zerda published about the phenomenon and about ions and electronsIn 1889 Liborio Zerda published about chicha, alcoholic beverage of maize and sugar, produced by the Muisca and still popular in 19th century BogotáZerda's most renowned work El Dorado (1883) tells about the ritual at Lake Guatavita, represented in the golden Muisca raft, which was not found until after Zerda's deathMuisca numerals were studied by ZerdaA mould for the production of tunjos may have been misinterpreted by Zerda to be a Muisca calendarZerda believed the site of the El Dorado ritual was not Lake Guatavita, as is commonly accepted today, yet in the Siecha Lakes
Liborio Zerda (Bogotá, Republic of New Granada, 10 July 1834 (other sources state 1830 or 1833)[1][2] - Bogotá, Colombia, 9 November 1919) was a Colombian physician and Muisca scholar. Zerda has been important in the natural sciences of the late 19th and early 20th century in Colombia, publishing many articles about various topics, from medicine to chemical analysis, radioactivity and the popular drink chicha.[1][3]
Zerda was contemporaneous with other Muisca scholars, and influenced by them; Joaquín Acosta and Ezequiel Uricoechea. He analysed the work done by José Domingo Duquesne on the Muisca numerals and published in 1883 his major work El Dorado about the mythical El Dorado, that he situated not in Lake Guatavita as is currently accepted to have been the site of the inauguration of the new zipa, but in the Siecha Lakes in the Chingaza Natural National Park.
Liborio Zerda taught at the Colegio del Rosario in Bogotá for 60 years and died on 9 November 1919 in the Colombian capital.
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LiborioZerda (Bogotá, Republic of New Granada, 10 July 1834 (other sources state 1830 or 1833) - Bogotá, Colombia, 9 November 1919) was a Colombian physician...
Humboldt and José Domingo Duquesne (late 18th and 19th century) and LiborioZerda. The Muisca used a vigesimal counting system and counted primarily with...
grew out of expectations aroused by the voyage of Columbus Lake Parime LiborioZerda List of mythological places Lost City of Z Montezuma's treasure, a somewhat...
artforms have been made by Alexander von Humboldt, Joaquín Acosta and LiborioZerda in the 19th century, Miguel Triana, Eliécer Silva Celis and Sylvia M...
Castellanos, Pedro Simón, Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita, Joaquín Acosta, LiborioZerda, and Jorge Gamboa Mendoza. The pre-Columbian history of the Altiplano...
pictured in the book El Dorado by Muisca scholar LiborioZerda in 1883. The discovery of the raft made Zerda believe that the site of the initiation ritual...
Muisca mummies have been 19th century scholars Ezequiel Uricoechea and LiborioZerda. In the 20th and 21st century Eliécer Silva Celis and Abel Fernando...
The priest showed Dimaté a drawing of the Siecha raft in a book by LiborioZerda, and Dimaté confirmed its similarity to the newly found raft. Father...
co-editor of The New Republic, author of The New Democracy (b. 1873); LiborioZerda, Colombian physician, known for his research into the Muisca indigenous...
common cultures of the Chibchas, 298–314. Universidad La Javeriana. Zerda, Liborio. 1947 (1883). El Dorado. Accessed 2016-07-08. N, N. 1979 (1889) (1539/1548-1559...
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