77:. Enríquez de Guzmán had been viceroy of New Spain, and was now taking up his new position in Peru. He appointed Ruiz Lozano captain of Spanish infantry. He served as the first director of the nautical school founded in 1657 in Lima, at the Hospital of Espiritu Santo, a sailors' hospital. The mission of the nautical academic was "to form men skillful in the handling of ships for the defense of the viceroyalty." He was also
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included publishing almanacs and sailing instructions. He served for several years as the director of the
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Treatise on Comets, observation and judgment of what I saw in the City of Kings , and generally anywhere in the world, from the end of 1664 to the beginning of 1665
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In 1658 he married Jacoba de la Cueva, a native of Lima. He was tutor to the sons of
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on similar business. Over his lifetime, he pursued mercantile affairs nearly everywhere in
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