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''' José de Acosta''' (1539-1600) was a Spanish scholar.
''' José de Acosta''' (1539-1600) was a Spanish scholar and theologian, a Jesuit missionary in South America and a naturalist. His ''Historia natural y moral de las Indias'' (1590) is one of the first and best descriptions of the New World and its inhabitants. He also taught theology at Ocana, Rome and Salamanca.


==Biography==
==Works==


José de Acosta was born at Medina del Campo in 1539.
====Books====
 
Jesuit missionary and naturalist. A lecturer in theology at Ocana [Spain], subsequently spent most of his life in Central America, 1564-1594. His ''Historia natural y moral de las Indias'' (1590) is one of the first and best descriptions of the New World and its inhabitants. After returning to Europe, he taught theology in Rome and eventually became the rector of the college at Salamanca, Spain.


He died in Salamanca on February 15, 1600.
==Works on Second Temple Judaism==
====Books====
*[[In Epistolam B. Pauli Apostoli ad Hebraeos commentarii (1598 Ribera/Acosta), book]]
*[[In Epistolam B. Pauli Apostoli ad Hebraeos commentarii (1598 Ribera/Acosta), book]]


==Biography==
==Biography==
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José de Acosta (1539-1600) was a Spanish scholar and theologian, a Jesuit missionary in South America and a naturalist. His Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590) is one of the first and best descriptions of the New World and its inhabitants. He also taught theology at Ocana, Rome and Salamanca.

Works

Books

Biography

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