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The Reformation · 1590
Natural and Moral History of the Indies
José de Acosta · 1540–1600
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What it is
Geography, altitude sickness, silver mining, and Andean religion, with an early argument that the Americas were peopled by migration from Asia across a northern land bridge.
Why it lasted
The most scientifically serious book about the New World in the sixteenth century, read by Bacon and Locke.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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