Los inicios de la ciencia moderna en el Caribe Neogranadino: Pedro López de León teoría y práctica en la cirugía de la Cartagena del Siglo XVII

The focus of this work is surgeon Pedro Lopez de Leon and the contribution of his manual of medicine and surgery, which he wrote in Cartagena de Indias in the early seventeenth century. Through the reconstruction of his life, and the analysis of his work and bibliographical references, we highlight the transatlantic notoriety of the effort to develop the scientific knowledge of modern medicine in a central port of the Caribbean in the Atlantic Trade.