The epistemiological break and rise of the new subject of knowledge in Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's general and natural history of the indies

The Conquest of the New World was at the basis of a highly significant change in the history of knowledge and it anticipated several processes which we will later see as important motivating factors in the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In this essay, we intend to...

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Main Author: Luz Ángela Martínez
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Chile 2010-11-01
Series:Revista Chilena de Literatura
Online Access:https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/9038