Natural and Moral History of the IndiesDuke University Press, 2002 M10 15 - 535 páginas The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries, naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during the sixteenth century. One of the first comprehensive investigations of the New World, Acosta’s study is strikingly broad in scope. He describes the region’s natural resources, flora and fauna, and terrain. He also writes in detail about the Amerindians and their religious and political practices. A significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about the New World, Acosta's Natural and Moral History of the Indies reveals an effort to incorporate new information into a Christian, Renaissance worldview. He attempted to confirm for his European readers that a "new" continent did indeed exist and that human beings could and did live in equatorial climates. A keen observer and prescient thinker, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's indigenous peoples migrated to the region from Asia, an idea put forth more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering Strait. Acosta's work established a hierarchical classification of Amerindian peoples and thus contributed to what today is understood as the colonial difference in Renaissance European thinking. |
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... HEAT , AND THE CALCULATION OF WINTER AND SUMMER To sum up : in the two temperate zones or regions , summer goes hand in hand with heat and drought and winter with cold and wetness . But within the Torrid Zone those qualities do not go ...
... HEAT , AND THE CALCULATION OF WINTER AND SUMMER To sum up : in the two temperate zones or regions , summer goes hand in hand with heat and drought and winter with cold and wetness . But within the Torrid Zone those qualities do not go ...
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... heat , and all the people there are black , too . Parts of Peru and the new kingdom of Granada are under the equator , and they are very temperate lands and tend rather toward cold than heat , and the people of those lands are white ...
... heat , and all the people there are black , too . Parts of Peru and the new kingdom of Granada are under the equator , and they are very temperate lands and tend rather toward cold than heat , and the people of those lands are white ...
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... heat , as is reported of the seas of Mozambique and Hormuz , far off in the East , and in the West the sea of Panama , which is the reason why it engenders alligators , and the sea of Brazil . Even at the same degree of latitude there ...
... heat , as is reported of the seas of Mozambique and Hormuz , far off in the East , and in the West the sea of Panama , which is the reason why it engenders alligators , and the sea of Brazil . Even at the same degree of latitude there ...
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Printing permission granted by King Philip II I | 1 |
Paper tax ordered by Christóbal de León | 7 |
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