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Article: Molina, Juan Ignacio
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MOLINA, JUAN IGNACIO
(
b
. Guaraculen, Talca, Chile, 24 June 1740;
d
. Bologna, Italy, 12 September 1829)
natural history
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Molina received his early education at Talca; when he was sixteen, he entered the Jesuit college at Concepci
ó
n, where he studied languages and the natural sciences. He entered the Jesuit order and was made librarian of the college, but in 1768 he had to leave Chile because of the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish dominions. Molina received holy orders upon arrival at Imola, Italy; and in 1774 he was appointed professor of natural sciences at the Institute of Bologna, where he wrote most of his works. Some of his lectures maintained the analogy of the matter ...