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Americus Vespucius

noun
1.
Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512).  Synonyms: Amerigo Vespucci, Vespucci.






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... vp with the Sea, and are not at this day to be discerned: By which accident America grew to be ['be be' in original—KTH] vnknowen of long time, vnto vs of the later ages, and was lately discouered againe by Americus Vespucius,[27] in the yeere of our Lord 1497. which some say to haue bene first discouered by Christophorus Columbus a ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. • Richard Hakluyt



Words linked to "Americus Vespucius" :   navigator, Vespucci



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