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Amerigo Vespucci – Scientist of the Day
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian emissary and explorer, was born Mar. 9, 1454.
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Amerigo Vespucci – Scientist of the Day
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian emissary and explorer, was born Mar. 9, 1454.
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Earliest map of America
Earliest map of America
The Waldseemüller map, Universalis Cosmographia, first published in 1507, was the first map to use the word “America”.
It is generally considered that America is named after Amerigo Vespucci. However, this would be inconsistent with the general practice of using surnames (other than Royal names) for the naming of discovered lands.
It has been postulated that America was named after Richard ap…
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The Waldseemüller map originally published in April, 1507. The first known map to use “America”.
How America Got it's Name
Vespucci used a Latinised form of his name, Americus Vespucius, in his Latin writings, which Waldseemüller used as a base for the new name, taking the feminine form America, according to the prevalent view (for other hypotheses, see the footnote in the introduction). The book accompanying the map stated: "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part, after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerige, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". Amerigo itself is an Italian form of the Medieval Latin Emericus (see also Saint Emeric of Hungary), which through the German form Heinrich (in English, Henry) derived from the Germanic name Haimirich.