José Caetano Gomes

José Caetano Gomes is a historical Brazilian author whose surviving published work is closely tied to agriculture. He is credited with Memoria sobre a cultura, e productos da cana de assucar, a Portuguese-language text that later entered the collections of major digital libraries and Project Gutenberg.

That book is an informed, hands-on study of sugarcane cultivation and sugar production in Brazil. It discusses planting methods, crop care, and the wider conditions affecting plantation output, showing an author interested not just in description but in practical improvement.

Reliable biographical details about his life are scarce in the sources I could confirm. One library record identifies him as having died in 1835, but beyond that, the available material says much more about his work than about his personal history.