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Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci - Naming a New World Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, navigator, and cartographer (mapmaker) from Florence, Italy. At the invitation of King Manuel I of Portugal, he was hired to observe and map several voyages along the east coast of what we know today as South America. Between 1499 and 1502, Amerigo Vespucci determined that the landmass was part of a new continent and not part of Asia as Christopher Columbus proposed. Vespucci is generally credited for figuring out that Columbus discovered a whole “New World” and not the eastern outskirts of India and China. In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map in which he named this new continent “America.” Waldseemüller took Amerigo Vespucci’s first name and latinized it to Americus, because Latin was the universal language for European maps. However, Americus was a man’s name and Martin Waldseemüller knew that continents, like ships, were always female. So, he took it upon himself to feminize Americus to “America” and the rest is history. For centuries, cartographers mapped the Old World as a single landmass divided into the three continents we know today: Europe, Asia, and Africa. Martin Waldseemüller started making a map with a single, fourth continent called America. Soon, other cartographers followed suit, and this “New World” became a standard feature on maps of the 16th century and beyond. The name “America” stuck because Martin Waldseemüller honored Amerigo Vespucci on his map, which was copied over and over again. Read more about America Vespucci: https://www.drivethruhistory.com/amer...