The present article aimed at analyzing chapters IV, V and VII from Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, by Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, written in the New Spain 16th century. We tried to relate its narrative to historical and epistemological contexts from such period, emphasizing its connections with European knowledge on Natural Philosophy and with needs imposed by the political and spiritual colonizations of New Spain.
Friar Bernardino de Sahagún; judiciary astrology; natural philosophy