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Acosta, José de
 
 
(hs´ th äk´stä) (KEY) , c.1539–1600, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Peru. He wrote a well-known history of the Spanish colonial period, The Natural and Moral History of the Indies (1590; tr. 1604, 1880, repr. 1970).
 
 
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