Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of AmericaMarsilio, 1992 - 214 páginas What caused renaissance geographers in 1507 to name the newly discovered continent America, in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, instead of, say, Columbia? The six letters of Vespucci, published in Letters From a New World, convinced Europe of the momentous truth that earlier had eluded Columbus - Columbus had not reached Asia, but a New World, a new continent between Europe and Asia that would bear the name of America. Vespucci's reports contain the astonished and bewildered observations of a man who first made sense of places and things that were, at the time, unimaginable. While Vespucci's voyages are not legendary, his reports of the New World are. |
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... turned about to head back to the boats . And thus fleeing in retreat , one of our sailors , a Portuguese man fifty - five years old , who had stayed guarding the boat , seeing the danger we were in , leapt ashore from it , and shouted ...
... turned about to head back to the boats . And thus fleeing in retreat , one of our sailors , a Portuguese man fifty - five years old , who had stayed guarding the boat , seeing the danger we were in , leapt ashore from it , and shouted ...
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... turn back toward Portugal . And at the point where we arrived and where we turned around , we were almost sixteen hundred leagues to the south on a straight line from the city of Lisbon ; for , if you set up the proportion , calculating ...
... turn back toward Portugal . And at the point where we arrived and where we turned around , we were almost sixteen hundred leagues to the south on a straight line from the city of Lisbon ; for , if you set up the proportion , calculating ...
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... turned , so they would turn the leaf , and in this way they were protected from the sun . The island contains many animals of various sorts , which drink swamp water . And seeing that they had nothing of value , we left , and came to ...
... turned , so they would turn the leaf , and in this way they were protected from the sun . The island contains many animals of various sorts , which drink swamp water . And seeing that they had nothing of value , we left , and came to ...
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Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespucci's Discovery of America Amerigo Vespucci Vista de fragmentos - 1992 |
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