Amerigo Vespucci was a 16th century navigator ... Sciences like astronomy and cartography were surging. People wanted to know more about the geography, people, and cultures outside their own." ...

a German cartographer gave a name to the newly discovered landmass blocking Europe's western passage to Asia. He called it America. It was a nod to the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville ... and eventually lent his name to a German cartographer’s popular 1507 map of a new found landmass he neither discovered nor charted in any ...

On the shelves, which are especially designed for the Italian Navy's Amerigo Vespucci tall ship ... that follows the path of the explorer and cartographer after whom the ship is proudly named.

In April 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller ... according to the Tradition of Ptolemy and the Discoveries of Amerigo Vespucci and others. It was the first known map to feature parts ...

It’s not precisely clear why a 16th century German cartographer chose to honor the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by naming a land mass after him instead of Christopher Columbus. But Martin ...

On April 25, 1507, a world map produced by German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller contained the first recorded use of the term “America,” in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.

Apparently it isn’t enough that the entire western hemisphere is named for an obscure Italian explorer and navigator named Amerigo Vespucci ... A German cartographer then made an addition ...