Sebastián Molina-Betancur is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) where he studies the circulation of science in the Spanish colonies between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. He has been lecturer of history of science and history of philosophy at the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).

Chapter I. The administrative history of a chair.- Chapter II. Newtonianism in Mutis's lectures on mathematics.- Chapter III. Newton's physics in New Granada: Mutis's lectures and mathematisation of nature.- Chapter IV. The circulation of Newtonianism in New Granada after Mutis's lectures.