Resumen:
The circulation and fortune of texts is subject to the vicissitudes
of fate and power: while there are eras in which all kinds of ideas
are freely spread, there are others in which a conflict of interests
hinders their transmission by means of oppressive instruments. A
typical example of these was the Tribunal of the Holy Office of
the Inquisition that, being in charge of securing orthodoxy, promulgated edicts for the prohibition of texts and processed authors
of sermons, collections of poems or any other work that could
contain propositions it considered heretical. Such is the case of a
manuscript forgotten in the archives of censure, that circulated as
anonymous in the province of Yucatán towards the end of the XVIII
century and which was submitted to scrutiny by the Holy Office,
but whose content remained inaccessible to most of the readers of
its time: Lunar syzygies and quadratures adjusted to the Mérida of
Yucatán meridian by an anctitona or denizen of the Moon, and sent
to the Bachelor Don Ambrosio de Echeverría, tuner of funeral Kyrie
in the Parish of Jesus of said city, and to the current professor of Logarithmic in the Town of Mama of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the year
of the Lord 1775.
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