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What the Nahua knew
Karen Reeds1
In 1570, Philip II of Spain sent Francisco Hernández to Mexico on the most ambitious government-sponsored scientific expedition since antiquity. The royal physician was ordered to survey the plants, animals and minerals of New Spain, to gather and test information about their uses from "doctors, medicine men, herbalists, Indians, and other persons with knowledge in such matters," and to describe and illustrate the natural history, geography and "antiquities" of the region.
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