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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... equator , we sailed fifty degrees beyond the equator , which together make about ninety degrees , and since this sum makes a quarter of the great circle , according to the true reasoning of measurement passed on to us by the ancients ...
... equator , we sailed fifty degrees beyond the equator , which together make about ninety degrees , and since this sum makes a quarter of the great circle , according to the true reasoning of measurement passed on to us by the ancients ...
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... equator . But as one goes toward the north , the elevation of the pole increases the farther one goes away from the equator . This elevation of the pole indicates the distance of places from the equator . For the distance of any place ...
... equator . But as one goes toward the north , the elevation of the pole increases the farther one goes away from the equator . This elevation of the pole indicates the distance of places from the equator . For the distance of any place ...
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... Equator I up to 12 cont'ng 60 15 12 25 59 14 4 Tropic 25 30 54 132 30 37 50 122 37 4I 47 II 4 * 51 57 32 8 57 63 28 7 63 66 26 62 Arctic Circle 66 70 21 514 70 80 6 I 1⁄2 Arctic Pole 80 90 O * Error for 11 4 . In like manner from the ...
... Equator I up to 12 cont'ng 60 15 12 25 59 14 4 Tropic 25 30 54 132 30 37 50 122 37 4I 47 II 4 * 51 57 32 8 57 63 28 7 63 66 26 62 Arctic Circle 66 70 21 514 70 80 6 I 1⁄2 Arctic Pole 80 90 O * Error for 11 4 . In like manner from the ...
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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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