Burgos: Alonso de Melgar, 1523.
The Requerimiento of 1513 gave the Spanish monarchy full divine license to exploit, enslave, and fight Indios, the collective term used to describe Mexica, Inca, and other native populations in the New World. Following the conquest of the Mexica and the establishment of New Spain.....
Basel: Oporinus, 1550.
In the 1549 first edition of the Initia doctrinæ physicæ—essentially the first scientific textbook of the Reformation—Philipp Melanchthon refutes the heliocentrism of Copernicus with a single blow, invoking Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets.” Moreover, he writes, referring to Copernicus.....