José de Acosta

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José de Acosta (September/October 1539 – February 15 1600), was a Spanish 16th-century Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. He wrote several works including De Natura Novi Orbis and De promulgatione Evangelii apud Barbaros, sive De Procuranda Indorum salute.



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