Historia natural y moral de las Indias (vol. 2 of 2)

Name: Historia natural y moral de las Indias (vol. 2 of 2)
Author: José de Acosta

by José de Acosta

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Giovanni Fini, Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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2015-11-11

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Public domain in the USA.

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America -- Early accounts to 1600 America -- Description and travel Acosta, José de, 1540-1600 -- Travel -- America Indians of Mexico -- Early works to 1800 Indians of South America -- Early works to 1800 Natural history -- America E011

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José de Acosta

1540–1600

A Jesuit scholar and traveler of the Spanish Empire, he wrote some of the earliest major European accounts of the Americas and tried to make sense of its peoples, landscapes, and religions. His work helped shape how early modern readers understood the New World.

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