Amerigo Vespucci Pilot Cb

Amerigo Vespucci Pilot Ma

Frederick Julius Pohl

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136227202
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Weltgeschichte

First published in 1967. This volume looks at the voyages of Americo Vespucio, to use the Spanish form of the name Amerigo Vespucci, who sailed to the West under the Spanish flag in 1499 and again in 1501 when he sailed to gain geographical information for the King of Portugal who like the King of Spain had been confused by the contradictory reports of Columbus. Columbus to his death believed that he had landed in Asia and not the Americas. Americo discovered the Amazon and the Para Rivers and explored over 6000 miles of continuous shoreline between Venezuela, which he named and a harbour about fifty degrees south on the coast of Argentina. In 1502 he presented 'proof' of the existence of the 'New World'. Americo crossed the Atlantic Ocean and found out and reported what was really there, naming the continent America from the Latin version of his name.

INDEX

Abulfeda, Arabian cosmographer, 222

Achillini, Alessandro, 223

Africa, voyages around, 4, 5; name, 170

Aguado, Juan, 43

Albert, John Michael, 222

Albuquerque, Portuguese navigator, 101

Alemquer, Pedro de, 108

Alexander VI, Pope, 103

Alfonsine Tables, 80, 222

Alfonso of Aragon, 26

Alfragano, Arabian cosmographer, 81, 95, 222

All Saints, Bay of, 113

Almagest (Ptolemy), 10, 218, 219

Almanac, Regiomontano’s, 65, 67, 80, 94, 222

Amalrich, meaning of, 170, 229

Amazon river, 54, 77, 196, 221; width of estuary, 221

Amazons, 3, 46

America, name, 170 ff., 229

American Legion, 229

Americ Vespuce (Vignaud), 233

Amerigo Vespucci... (Magnaghi), 158, 224

Anghiera, Pietro Martire d’, see Peter Martyr

Animals, 83, 88, 132, 133; monsters, 3

Antarctica, 177

Antarctic Circle, 149

Antilles, see West Indies

Antipater, Lucius Caelius, 5

Arabs, 1, 218

Argentina, 122, 196

Aristotle, 1

Aruba, island, 69, 86

Asia, romantic tales of, 6; name, 170

Astrolabe, 48, 63, 67, 186, 187, 217; described, 218

Astronomical computations, see under Ptolemy; Vespucci, Amerigo

Astronomical observations, 49, 55, 62 ff., 78 ff., 93 ff., 125, 227; see also under Longitude

Atlantic, first crossing south of equator, 109

Atocaciones nauticas (Ratto), 228

Atti dell VIII Congresso Geografica Italiana (Masini), 208

Australia, meaning of name, 174,

Authority, disregard of, 9; overthrow, 10

Azores, 87, 96

Bacon, Roger, 185

Bahama Islands, 74, 87

Bahia, 113

Baia Cabralia, 112

Balboa, Vasco Nunez de, 192

Bandini, Angelo Maria, 131

Baptismal records, 208

Bastidas, Roderigo...