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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... seven mutually incomprehensible languages : it is maintained that there are only seventy - seven languages in the world , 35 but I say that there are more than one thousand , for those alone which I have heard number more than forty ...
... seven mutually incomprehensible languages : it is maintained that there are only seventy - seven languages in the world , 35 but I say that there are more than one thousand , for those alone which I have heard number more than forty ...
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... seven days and went many times to their villages , where they treated us extremely honorably . And when we were eager to set out again upon our voyage , they reminded us that at certain times of the year a very cruel people who were ...
... seven days and went many times to their villages , where they treated us extremely honorably . And when we were eager to set out again upon our voyage , they reminded us that at certain times of the year a very cruel people who were ...
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... seven men who had come with us , that they could not contain themselves . And the next day we saw a great number of people coming over the land , still in their battle gear , sounding horns and various other instruments which they use ...
... seven men who had come with us , that they could not contain themselves . And the next day we saw a great number of people coming over the land , still in their battle gear , sounding horns and various other instruments which they use ...
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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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