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Defense of La Paz

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Description: Defense of La Paz
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Description: Urban Images of the Hispanic World: 1493–1793
Writing in 1531, the famous Spanish humanist, Juan Luis Vives, examined the relationship between observation and knowledge. “Observation,” he wrote, “begins with the eye.” Vives then distinguished between seeing — a sensory phenomenon — and understanding or...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.107-150
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00278.005

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