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Letters from a new world
Découverte et exploration espagnoles
Early accounts to 1600
Correspondance
Discoveries in geography
Spanish
Discovery and exploration
Sources
History
What caused renaissance geographers in 1507 to name the newly discovered continent America, in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, instead of, say, Columbia? The six letters of Vespucci, published in Letters From a New World, convinced Europe of the momentous truth that earlier had eluded Columbus - Columbus…
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