Keywords foreign land, Jose de Acosta, sixteenth-century, Peru College Family, Home, and Social Sciences Abstract Jose de Acosta’s Historia Natural y Moral de Las Indias 1 is both a reflection of and a response to the scientific turmoil that the New World had caused in Renaissance Europe. While Italy and France were overtaken by the Scientific Revolution, Spain was left stewing in its religious orthodoxy, wondering how to incorporate the innovations and breakthroughs of sixteenth-century science.
