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." ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, ...

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 ...

1454: __ Amerigo Vespucci is born in Florence ... Martin Waldseemüller, a modernist-humanist German clergyman and cartographer, reprinted "The Four Voyages of Amerigo" in 1507 with his own ...

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 ...