José de Acosta, Natural and Moral History of the East and West Indies (1604)
Date
1604
Author
Joseph
Acosta(alternate name for
José de
Acosta
)
Translator
Lexicon title
A Table of the most remarkable things contained in this Naturall and Morall Historie of the Indies
Book title
The Natvrall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies. Intreating of the remarkeable things of Heaven, of the Elements, Mettalls, Plants and Beasts which are proper to that Country: Together with the Manners, Ceremonies, Lawes, Governements, and Warres of the Indians
Publication place
London
Printer
Val. Sims
Publisher
Edward Blount and William Aspley
Transcription source
EEBO (British Library C.114.b.11). Also available as an EEBO transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
travel
Summary
Some logical definitions.
Extent
438
Word-group
type: other
Word-entry
type: gloss
number: 1
sample: in our vulgar tongue, this word of Indies, is generall vnto vs in our vsuall maner of speech: for wee meane by the Indies, those rich countries which are farre off, and strange vnto vs. So we Spaniards do indifferently call Indies, the countries of Peru, Mexico, China, Malaca, and Bresil: and from what parts soever of these any letters come, wee say they bee from the Indies, which countries be farre distant and different one from another. (47)
number: 1
sample: in our vulgar tongue, this word of Indies, is generall vnto vs in our vsuall maner of speech: for wee meane by the Indies, those rich countries which are farre off, and strange vnto vs. So we Spaniards do indifferently call Indies, the countries of Peru, Mexico, China, Malaca, and Bresil: and from what parts soever of these any letters come, wee say they bee from the Indies, which countries be farre distant and different one from another. (47)
STC
94
Criticisms
Ford, Thayne R. "Stranger in a Foreign Land: José de Acosta's Scientific Realizations in Sixteenth-century Peru." The Sixteenth Century Journal 29.1 (1998): 19-33.
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Jarcho, Saul. "Origin of the American Indian as Suggested by Fray Joseph de Acosta (1589)." Isis 50.4, alt. no. 162 (1959): 430-38. view record
Lopetegui, Len. "Padre José de Acosta (1540-1600): datos cronológicos." Archivum historicum Societatis Jesu 9 (1940): 121-31. view record
Jarcho, Saul. "Origin of the American Indian as Suggested by Fray Joseph de Acosta (1589)." Isis 50.4, alt. no. 162 (1959): 430-38. view record
Lopetegui, Len. "Padre José de Acosta (1540-1600): datos cronológicos." Archivum historicum Societatis Jesu 9 (1940): 121-31. view record
