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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1665-8574</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica. Revista de estudios Latinoamericanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-8574</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1665-85742006000100009</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[José de Acosta (1540&#8210;1600), humanista y científico]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rivara de Tuesta]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[María Luisa]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Lima ]]></addr-line>
<country>Peru</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>42</numero>
<fpage>9</fpage>
<lpage>34</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-85742006000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-85742006000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-85742006000100009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: José de Acosta, S.J. (1540-1600) a quien hemos estudiado como humanista reformista, como evangelizador del credo cristiano, y en esta oportunidad, como científico que refuta en su Historia natural y moral de las Indias a filósofos greco-romanos y medievales por sus negaciones imaginarias e inferencias erróneas acerca de la existencia del Nuevo Mundo. Este trabajo procura destacar su aporte científico en lo que respecta al continente encontrado por los europeos, en lo que se refiere a su naturaleza. Contribuyendo en esa forma a una renovación del conocimiento del cosmos, del mundo y de nuestra América desde la geografía física.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: José de Acosta, S.J. (1540-1600), known to be a humanist, reformist, evangelist of Christian faith and, in this case, a scientist who refutes Greco-Roman and medieval philosophers, in its Natural and Moral History of the Indies, because of their imaginary denials and wrong inferences about the existence of the New World. In this paper the author stresses the scientific contribution regarding the continent found by Europeans, concerning its nature and its people. This way, he contributed to the knowledge renewal of the cosmos, the world and America from a double perspective: the physical geography and the moral history of the original inhabitants.]]></p></abstract>
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