José de Acosta, SJ (1539 or 1540 in Medina del Campo, Spain – February 15, 1600 in Salamanca, Spain) was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary...
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correspondent Joaquín Acosta (1800s), Colombian explorer and author Joe Acosta (1950–2020), Puerto Rican salsa piano player José de Acosta (1540–1600), Spanish...
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José Julián Acosta (February 16, 1825 – August 26, 1891), was a journalist and an advocate of the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico. José Julián Acosta...
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José Acosta may refer to: José Acosta (baseball) (1891–1977), Cuban baseball player José Acosta Cubero (born 1947), Spanish politician José de Acosta...
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and historian José de Acosta, who was ordered to refute his philosophical bases. Acosta wrote an entire treaty utilizing Francisco de Vitoria's thesis...
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Yupana (section José de Acosta)
of black and white circles. Predating Pomo de Ayala's writings, in 1596 The Jesuit father José de Acosta wrote: ... Well, seeing another group which...
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of Mexico José Hoebee, Dutch pop singer José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa, also known as also known as José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa (de) Almeida e...
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by Miguel de Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, William Camden, José de Acosta and other important authors. Blount has been described as "a genuine...
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Jesuits (redirect from Compañía de Jesús)
who considered it presumptuous. The resentment was recorded by Jesuit José de Acosta of a conversation with the Archbishop of Santo Domingo. In the words...
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naturalist Alexander von Humboldt even though it was discovered by José de Acosta 250 years before Humboldt. In 1846, von Humboldt reported measurements...
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Simon Ditchfield, ‘What Did Natural History Have to Do with Salvation? José de Acosta SJ (1540-1600) in the America's', in: Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon...
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Ricardo de Acosta (July 8, 1837 – August 24, 1907) was a Cuban steamship-line executive and sugar refiner. Ricardo was born on July 8, 1837, in Matanzas...
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groups during the presidencies of Luis Echeverría and José López Portillo. In the year 2000, Acosta was accused for allegedly having ties with the drug...
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Tower of Babel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
tradition of 72 languages persisted into later times. Both José de Acosta in his 1576 treatise De procuranda indorum salute, and António Vieira a century...
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approx. date – Martine Bertereau, French mineralogist February 15 – José de Acosta, Spanish naturalist (born 1539) February 17 – Giordano Bruno (born 1548)...
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Anastasia Acosta (born Anastasia Magdalena Acosta Loría on October 18, 1974) is a Mexican actress and model. Born in San José, Costa Rica, Anastasia started...
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mass spectrometry. The 16th century Spanish missionary and naturalist José de Acosta noted the supposed aphrodisiac power of chilies, but wrote that they...
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films. He was sometimes credited as Rudolph Acosta. Acosta was born to José Acosta and Alexandrina Pérez de Acosta on July 29, 1920 in the El Segundo Barrio...
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[citation needed] It had been described in 1590 by Spanish chronicler José de Acosta. Due to its portability, long shelf life, and nutritional value, chuño...
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January 23 – John Case, English commentator on Aristotle February 15 – José de Acosta, Spanish naturalist (born 1539) April – Thomas Deloney, English novelist...
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José María Rodríguez-Acosta González de la Cámara (25 February 1878, Granada - 19 March 1941, Granada) was a Spanish painter, known for portraits, urban...
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family of clergymen. Acosta began his education in San José and started his secondary education at the University Institute of San José, a preparatory school...
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Juan de Tovar and José de Acosta. It has been suggested that it is to be identified with a book which is known to have been written by Andrés de Olmos...
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supervision were done by officials appointed by the state. The jesuit José de Acosta mentions that in Ancient Peru, the division of camelid herds was made...
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Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada CBE (born 2 June 1973) is a Cuban-British ballet director and retired dancer who is director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet...
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Destruction of the American Indios. Polity. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-7456-4001-3. José de Acosta (24 September 2002). Natural and Moral History of the Indies. Duke University...
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José Manuel Acosta y Bello was a Cuban painter, photographer, cartoonist, sculptor, and artist. He graduated with first letters from a Catholic Seminary...
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life. Acosta's brother was José Manuel Acosta y Bello, one of the most famous Cuban political cartoonists of his day, who illustrated most of Acosta's poems...
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book seem to have been inspired by the work of another Jesuit, José de Acosta, whose De Procuranda Indorum Salute was published in Salamanca in 1589. In...
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(1567–1574) and ruling Duke of Pomerania (1569–1600) (b. 1542) February 15 – José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. 1540) February 17 – Giordano...
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