Natural and moral history of the Indies / Jose de Acosta ; edited by Jane E. Mangan ; with an introduction and commentary by Walter Mignolo ; translated by Frances Lopez-Morillas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acosta, José de, 1540-1600.

Contributor:

Mangan, Jane E., 1969-

Mignolo, Walter.

López-Morillas, Frances M.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Chronicles of the New World order.

Chronicles of the New World order

Standardized Title:

Historia natural y moral de las Indias. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acosta, José de, 1540-1600--Travel--America.

Acosta, José de.

Indians of Mexico--Early works to 1800.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of South America--Early works to 1800.

Indians of South America.

Natural history--America.

Natural history.

America--Early works to 1600.

America.

America--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (569 p.)

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Printed for the Hakluyt Society 1880

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploration of th society, surroundings and lives of the Amerindians of the Western Indies and the Americas (what we would call Latin America) as seen through first-hand observations of Jose Acosta and the written accounts of other ethnohistorians, soldie

Contents:

Contents; Introduction to José de Acosta'sHistoria Natural y Moral de las Indias; Printing permission granted by King Philip II; Printing permission granted by Gonzalo Dávila, Society of Jesus; Content approval granted by Fray Luis de León; Dedication to the infanta Doña Isabel Clara Eugenia de Austria; Paper tax ordered by Christóbal de León; Prologue to the reader; Book I; 1. Of the opinion held by some authors that the heavensdid not extend to the New World; 2. How the heavens are round everywhere and rotatearound themselves

3. How Holy Writ gives us to understand that the earth is inthe midst of the universe4. In which a response is given to what is alleged in Scriptureagainst the heavens being round; 5. Of the shape and appearance of the heavens in the New World; 6. How the world has both land and sea in the directionof both poles; 7. Which refutes the opinion of Lactantius, who saidthat there were no antipodes; 8. Of Saint Augustine's motives in denying the antipodes; 9. Of Aristotle's opinion of the New World and what itwas that caused him to deny it

10. How Pliny and most of the ancients believed thesame as Aristotle11. How some mention of this New World isfound in the ancients; 12. What Plato believed concerning these West Indies; 13. How some have believed that in Holy ScriptureOphir is this Peru of ours; 14. What Tarshish and Ophir mean in Scripture; 15. Of the prophecy of Abdias, which some say concernedthese Indies; 16. How the first men could have come to the Indiesand how they did not sail purposely to these parts; 17. Of the properties and remarkable virtue of the lodestone innavigation and how the ancients did not know of it

18. Which answers those who believe that in ancienttimes the ocean was crossed as in our day19. How it may be believed that the first inhabitants of the Indiescame there brought by storms and against their will; 20. How it is more reasonable to believe that the firstdwellers in the Indies came by land; 21. How wild beasts and domestic animals crossedto the lands of the Indies; 22. How the race of Indians did not come by way ofAtlantis, as some believe; 23. How the opinion of many, who believe that the Indianscome from the race of the Jews, is false

24. Why there is no sure way to establish the Indians' origin25. What the Indians are wont to say about their origin; Book II; 1. Which will deal with the nature of the equinoctial line,or equator; 2. What caused the ancients to have no doubt thatthe Torrid Zone was uninhabitable; 3. How the Torrid Zone is very wet, and how inthis the ancients were much mistaken; 4. How outside the Tropics there is more rain when the sundraws farther away, which is the reverse of the Torrid Zone; 5. How in the Tropics the rains come in summer, or timeof heat, and the calculation of winter and summer

6. How the Torrid Zone has a great abundance of waterand vegetation, though Aristotle denies it

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613064127

9781283064125

128306412X

9780822383932

0822383934

OCLC:

191222303