La historia natural de José de Acosta y la física del globo de Alexander von Humboldt
This article shows that the Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590), by Jesuit historian José de Acosta, anticipates the famous work Cosmos (1845) by Alexander von Humboldt, as a generic, programmatic and even philosophic model for the conceptualization of a global climate science. This readin...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/77934 |