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Person1454 – 1512
Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine merchant and navigator who sailed the coast of South America and described it as a "New World" rather than Asia; America is named after him
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In 1507 a world map published by the scholar Martin Waldseemüller at Saint-Dié in France first gave the new continent the name "America" — after Amerigo Vespucci, who had declared it a New World rather than Asia.
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- Martin Waldseemüller
German cartographer whose 1507 world map, published at Saint-Dié, first used the name "America"
Themes this person appears in
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea