| Amerigo Vespucci Contributor(s): Ober, Frederick A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1986932826 ISBN-13: 9781986932820 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.32 lbs) 102 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer who was born in the Republic of Florence. Sailing for Portugal around 1501-1502, Vespucci demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies were not Asia's eastern outskirts (as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages) but a separate, unexplored land mass colloquially known as the New World. It came to be called "the Americas", a name derived from Americus (the Latin version of Vespucci's first name). He became a citizen of the Crown of Castile and died in Seville (1512) |