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José de Acosta was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America.

Aside from his publication of the proceedings of the provincial councils of 1567 and 1583, and several works of exclusively theological import, Acosta is best known as the writer of De Natura Novi Orbis, De promulgatione Evangelii apud Barbaros, sive De Procuranda Indorum salute and above all, the
Historia natural y moral de las Indias
. The latter was published at Seville in 1590, and was soon after its publication translated into various languages. It established the reputation of Acosta, as this was one of the very first detailed and realistic descriptions of the New World. In a form more concise than that employed by his predecessors, Francisco Lopez de Gómara and Oviedo, he treated the natural and philosophic history of the New World from a broader point of view. In it, more than a century before other Europeans learned of the Bering Strait, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's indigenous peoples had migrated from Asia. He also divided them into three barbarian categories. The Historia also described Inca and Aztec customs and history, as well as other information such as winds and tides, lakes, rivers, plants, animals, and mineral resources in the New World.

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José de Acosta

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Books from José de Acosta

Natural and Moral History of the Indies

The Natural And Moral History Of The Indies (Cambridge Library Collection Hakluyt First Series) (Volume 1)

The Latin American Ecocultural Reader

Predicación del Evangelio en las Indias (Spanish Edition)

The Natural & Moral History of the Indies: Volume 2

Escritos menores

Le peregrinazioni di Bartolomé Lorenzo

Tercero Catecismo, y Exposici�n de la Doctrina Christiana Por Sermones, Para Que Los Curas, y Otros Ministros Prediquen, y Ense�en � Los Indios, y � Las Dem�s Personas: Conforme a Lo Que Se Provey� En El Santo Concilio Provincial de Lima El A�o Pas

Vida religiosa y civil de los indios (Historia natural y moral de las Indias)

Debate sobre la guerra contra China

EPÍSTOLAS

The Natural and Moral History of the Indies 2 Volume Set

The Natural & Moral History of the Indies; Volume 61