John Lloyd Stephens

Standard Name: Stephens, John Lloyd

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Occupation Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
While at Chichén Itzá, the Le Plongeons measured the buildings and made hundreds of maps, tracings, moulds, and three-dimensional photographs of the ruins. Augustus later wrote: The scientific world owes much to Mrs. Le Plongeon...
Textual Production Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Composed from the notes of a lecture that she gave in support of a Catholic school in Belize, this was the first article by a woman published in the society's Proceedings since its founding in...

Timeline

1839: John Lloyd Stephens and artist Frederick...

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1839

John Lloyd Stephens and artist Frederick Catherwood travelled to Central America to locate and investigate the Copán ruins; they discovered that these were remains of the Mayan civilization.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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