| Father Bernabe Cobo - 1979 - 308 pàgines
...not yet translated. The complete work of which these two books are a part was clearly inspired by the Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Natural and Moral History of the Indies), written by the earlier Jesuit scholar Jose de Acosta and published in Seville in 15 90. Cobo refers... | |
| Jean Franco - 1994 - 408 pàgines
...constituted its fascination. In 1590, a Jesuit father from Lima, Jose de Acosta (1539-1616) published a Historia natural y moral de las Indias [Natural and Moral History of the Indies] in which he made an ambitious attempt to examine the geography, flora, fauna, history and civilisation... | |
| Anthony Pagden - 1993 - 228 pàgines
...demanded a new kind of writing, but also to theorize about what form that should take was Acosta, whose Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Natural and Moral History of the Indies) of 1590 was, as he claimed, the first 'philosophical history', the first moral history — as history... | |
| Roger Smith - 1997 - 1070 pàgines
...Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566) and the much more influential study by Jose de Acosta (1539-1600), Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Natural and Moral History of the Indies, 1 590) laid the basis for what was to become ethnography. Both men had actually lived in the cultures... | |
| William Marder - 2005 - 256 pàgines
...originally recorded by Saamanos in 1526. mEarly Man and the Ocean, pp. 216 -228. 132 Joseph de Acosta, Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Natural and Moral History of the Indies), Mexico: FCE, 1590. reprint 1940. Acosta was from a family of converted Jews. A Jesuit from the age... | |
| Merry E. Wiesner - 2006 - 522 pàgines
...twentieth century, though other, shorter considerations of these issues were. One of these was the Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Natural and Moral History of the East and West Indies), written by the Spanish Jesuit theologian Jose de Acosta (1540-1600), who had... | |
| Sandra Sider - 2007 - 402 pàgines
...wrote a catechism in Indian dialects and an influential work on the flora and fauna of the New World, Historia natural y moral de las Indias (Natural and moral history of the Indies, 1590). SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Apianus, Petrus (1501-1552) was professor of mathematics at Ingolstadt. His Cosmographia... | |
| Lucien X. Polastron - 2007 - 396 pàgines
...Conseil," trans. Georges Raynaud (Paris: Librairie d'Amerique et d'Orient, 1975). 22. Jose de Acosta, Historia natural y moral de las Indias [Natural and Moral History of the West Indies], trans. Jacques Remy-Zephir (Paris: Payot, 1979). 23. Serafim Leite, author of a history... | |
| Harold John Cook - 2007 - 576 pàgines
...his account. Paluda nus showed Linschoten other accounts of the Indies, such as Joseph de Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias ("Natural and moral history of the [West] Indies") published at Seville in 1590. Acosta's work provided the basis for part 3 of Linschoten's... | |
| Juan José Saldaña - 2009 - 265 pàgines
...fantastical places. Let us look at a few more examples. Joseph de Acosta wrote in Historia naturaly moral de las Indias (Natural and Moral History of the Indies, 1590) that he had found evidence in Peru of colossuses that, according to medieval history, had lived in... | |
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