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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... headed for their houses , and once inside , found only two old women and one sick man . We took many things from them , though of little value , and we preferred not to burn down their houses , since it seemed to us something that would ...
... headed for their houses , and once inside , found only two old women and one sick man . We took many things from them , though of little value , and we preferred not to burn down their houses , since it seemed to us something that would ...
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... head toward land . And as our company had a forty - five ton caravel which was a very good sailer , she placed herself windward of the canoe , and when it seemed the right moment to overtake it , she let out the tackle and rigging and ...
... head toward land . And as our company had a forty - five ton caravel which was a very good sailer , she placed herself windward of the canoe , and when it seemed the right moment to overtake it , she let out the tackle and rigging and ...
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... headed for the land with the boats , taking the canoe up with us over the stern , and anchored half a league from the shore . And since we saw many people on the beach , we headed for land in the boats and took with us the two men we ...
... headed for the land with the boats , taking the canoe up with us over the stern , and anchored half a league from the shore . And since we saw many people on the beach , we headed for land in the boats and took with us the two men we ...
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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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