
José de Acosta
✶October 11, 1540
†February 15, 1600
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✶October 11, 1540
†February 15, 1600
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José de Acosta, SJ was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist in Latin America. His deductions regarding the ill effects of crossing over the Andes in 1570 related to the atmosphere being too thin for human needs led to the modern understanding of a variety of altitude sickness, now referred to as Acosta's disease.
Spanish missionary and writer (1539 or 1540–1600)
Biography from the article José de Acosta on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.