ABSTRACT
The present analysis of selected scientific and historiographical works by the mestizo polymath José Eusebio de Llano Zapata contributes to the ongoing reappraisal of Cartesian rationality and scientific knowledge-production by thinkers and scholars associated with new realism and new materialism. Religion and science accommodated each other in the Peruvian’s theories of the earth and theories of the origins of the first peoples in the Americas. The rereading of Llano Zapata’s natural history proposed herein is part of a larger interdisciplinary effort to overturn Thomas Kuhn’s model of scientific revolution and other reductive narratives of science and modernity.
