Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso
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Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (Concordia
, Entre Ríos
, January 17 of 1917 - Buenos Aires
, July 13 of 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups.
He suggested that the coasts of Ecuador
and Peru
could be found in Ptolemy
and Marinus of Tyre
maps on the so called Cattigara Peninsula. He based some of his assumptions on the suggestions made by Enrique de Gandía
in the book "Primitivos navegantes vascos".
He was considered by Paul Gallez
, member of the Argentine School of Protocartography.
Concordia, Entre Ríos
San Antonio de Padua de la Concordia is a city in the north-east of the province of Entre Ríos in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 142,000 inhabitants as of the , and is the head town of the department of the same name.Concordia lies on the right-hand shore of the Uruguay River, opposite...
, Entre Ríos
Entre Ríos Province
Entre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....
, January 17 of 1917 - Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, July 13 of 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups.
He suggested that the coasts of Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
and Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
could be found in Ptolemy
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
and Marinus of Tyre
Marinus of Tyre
Marinus of Tyre, was a Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.-Biography and historical context:...
maps on the so called Cattigara Peninsula. He based some of his assumptions on the suggestions made by Enrique de Gandía
Enrique de Gandía
Enrique de Gandía was an Argentine historian, author of over a hundred books.He taught, as a professor of School of Fine Arts , the University of Morón and the University of Belgrano , being co-founder of the latter two. He also held the chair of Political Science at the Kennedy University...
in the book "Primitivos navegantes vascos".
He was considered by Paul Gallez
Paul Gallez
Paul Gallez was an Argentinian cartographer and historian, born in Brussels, and based on the city of Bahía Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina....
, member of the Argentine School of Protocartography.
Publications
- Historia de la navegación primitiva, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1949.
- La representación de América en Mapas romanos de los tiempos de Cristo, Ediciones Ibarra Grasso, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1970.
- America en la prehistoria mundial. DIFUSION GRECO FENICIA. Editor: TIPOGRAFICA EDITORA ARGENTINA, Bs. As., Argentina, 1982.
- Breve Historia de las Razas de América. Editorial Claridad, Buenos Aires. 1989.
- Los hombres Barbados en la América precolombina: razas indígenas americanas, Editorial Kier S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997.
- "Novedades Sobre la Verdadera Historia de los Incas" Journal of Inter-American Studies 5(1) 1963: pp. 19–30, page 22, in Spanish
- Cosmogonía y Mitología Indígena Americana. Editorial Kier, 1997. página 65. ISBN 950-17-0064-X, 9789501700640