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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... winds that prevail in that region are easterly ones and sciroccos , which are hot winds ; and also be- cause nature has already converted their blackness into a trait , as we see even in our regions : that the black people breed black ...
... winds that prevail in that region are easterly ones and sciroccos , which are hot winds ; and also be- cause nature has already converted their blackness into a trait , as we see even in our regions : that the black people breed black ...
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... wind with bare masts , for these were southwesterly winds , with very high seas and the air very turbulent ; and this storm was so fierce that the entire fleet was in great fear . The nights were very long , for we had a night on 7 ...
... wind with bare masts , for these were southwesterly winds , with very high seas and the air very turbulent ; and this storm was so fierce that the entire fleet was in great fear . The nights were very long , for we had a night on 7 ...
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... wind peculiar to itself . The west wind lashes the Tyrrhenian , the south wind the Sicilian , while the east wind breaks the waters of the Adriatic which roll beneath its blasts . " Leaving Sicily the sea spreads its deep expanse to the ...
... wind peculiar to itself . The west wind lashes the Tyrrhenian , the south wind the Sicilian , while the east wind breaks the waters of the Adriatic which roll beneath its blasts . " Leaving Sicily the sea spreads its deep expanse to the ...
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to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de Medici | 19 |
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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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