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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.
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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...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Preface
- Foreword
- Contents
- Illustrations
- I. Ptolemy's Challenge
- II. Amerigo
- III. From Merchant to Explorer
- IV. The Voyage for Spain
- V. Vespucci's Letter from Seville, 1500
- VI. Changing Flags
- VII. The Voyage for Portugal
- VIII. Vespucci's Letters from Cape Verde, 1501, and Lisbon,1502
- IX. The Discovery of a Continent
- X. The Forgeries
- XI. The Naming of a Continent
- XII. Organizing Navigation
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index