by Elio — Thanks to the in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the Ecuado­rian physi­cian and sci­en­tist, Dr. By­ron Núñez Freile, I learned of a sur­pris­ingly high level of sci­en­tific de­vel­op­ment that took place long ago in a re­mote re­gion of the world. Quito, the present-day cap­i­tal of Ecuador, is nes­tled amidst the high An­des and...