José de Acosta
1540–1600
Spanish missionary and writer (1539 or 1540–1600)
naturalist · writer · historian
Born in Medina del Campo
Contemporaries
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- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- Michelangelo (1475–1564)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
- Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
- Johannes Kepler (1572–1630)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)
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