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Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.
Juan Díaz de Solís (c. 1470–1516), [5] Portuguese or Spanish navigator and explorer, appointed in 1512 following the death of Vespucci [6] Sebastian Cabot [ 3 ] : 321 [ 7 ] (c. 1474–c. 1557), Venetian explorer, Pilot Major of Spain from 5 February 1518 to 25 October 1525, succeeding Díaz de Solís, [ 5 ] and again from 1533 to 1547 [ 3 ...
In 1497, Vespucci sailed with Spain and left Cadiz, Spain on his first journey where he was sailing through the West Indies. [4] In the "Letter from Seville", he wrote that "we sailed for about thirteen hundred leagues to that land from the city of Cadiz" [5] However, the voyage in 1497 was to reach the West Indies instead of Brazil.
His collaborator Matthias Ringmann and he are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in a world map they delineated in 1507. Waldseemüller was also the first to map South America as a continent separate from Asia, the first to produce a ...
English: Woodcut probably depicting Amerigo Vespucci's first voyage (1497-98) to the New World, from first known published edition of Vespucci's 1504 Letter to Soderini, entitled "Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovament trovate in quattro suoi viaggi", published by Pietro Pacini in Florence c.1505.
Amerigo Serrao, birth name of Arthur Varney, American screenwriter and film director; Amerigo Severini, Italian cyclist; Amerigo Thodé (born 1950), Curaçaoan politician; Amerigo Tot (1909–1984), Hungarian sculptor and actor; Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer after whom the American continents were named
"Lunars" or lunar distances were an early proposal for the calculation of longitude, having been first made practical by Regiomontanus in his 1474 Ephemerides Astronomicae. This almanac is one of the sources used by Amerigo Vespucci in his landmark longitude calculations he made on August 23, 1499 and September 15, 1499 as he explored South ...
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