Americus Vespucius

Sinus Corinthiacus, have been swallowed up with the sea, and are not at this day to be discerned: by which accident America grew to be unknown, of long time, unto us of the later ages, and was lately discovered again by Americus Vespucius, in the year of our Lord

The North-West Passage 2003

Americus Vespucius was born in Florence, Italy, and like many other young Italians of that day entered the service of neighboring countries.

Introductory American History Elbert Jay Benton

A Map of Virginia (1612), a second folio of Shakespeare, and writings of Americus Vespucius, Richard Hakluyt, Samuel de Champlain, and others.

Eighth Annual Report of the Archivist, Library of the University of Virginia, for the Year 1937-38 1938

Really Americus Vespucius discovered very little, and does not deserve to have the continents named for him.

Colonial Children 1902

It was the peninsula-like projection of South America about Cape St. Roque, twenty degrees farther east than Labrador, that welcomed the ships of Cabral and Americus Vespucius, and secured to Portugal a foothold in the

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

(Born 1451-died 1512.) Like Columbus, this Americus Vespucius was an Italian; like him, he was a daring sailor and a fearless adventurer, sailing into strange seas to see what he could find.

The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral 1892

Vespucci (ah-ma'ree-go ves-poot'chee), or Americus Vespucius, who had twice before visited the coast of South America.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

The whole world honors him as the Discoverer of America; and yet the very name that the Western Hemisphere bears comes not from the man who discovered it, but from his friend and comrade Americus Vespucius.

The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral 1892

And some of the map-makers in France, when they had to name the new lands in the West that they drew on their maps -- the lands that were not the Indies, nor China, nor Japan -- called them after the man who had told them so much about them -- Americus Vespucius.

The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral 1892

[1] Americus Vespucius was born in Florence in 1452 and died in

Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885