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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... Cadiz . For , giving 163 leagues to every degree , I reckoned that we were 1,3661⁄2 leagues ( or 5,4663 miles ) west of Cadiz . And I give 163 leagues to each degree because , according to Ptolemy and Alfraganus , " the earth rotates ...
... Cadiz . For , giving 163 leagues to every degree , I reckoned that we were 1,3661⁄2 leagues ( or 5,4663 miles ) west of Cadiz . And I give 163 leagues to each degree because , according to Ptolemy and Alfraganus , " the earth rotates ...
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... Cadiz . Once we had restored ourselves there , we sailed on to Castile ; but the wind was against us , and we were forced to go to the Canary Islands , and from the Canaries to the isle of Madeira , and from Madeira to Cadiz . We were ...
... Cadiz . Once we had restored ourselves there , we sailed on to Castile ; but the wind was against us , and we were forced to go to the Canary Islands , and from the Canaries to the isle of Madeira , and from Madeira to Cadiz . We were ...
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... Cadiz , for the Admiral left San Lucar on the 30th of May , and Americo alleges that he departed from Cadiz on the 20th of that month , and also usurps a year , for the Admiral sailed in 1498 , while Americo pretends that he set out on ...
... Cadiz , for the Admiral left San Lucar on the 30th of May , and Americo alleges that he departed from Cadiz on the 20th of that month , and also usurps a year , for the Admiral sailed in 1498 , while Americo pretends that he set out on ...
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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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