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Vespucci, i cili kishte eksploruar Amerikën Jugore mes viteve 1497 dhe 1502, ishte Evropiani i parë që sugjeroi se Amerikat nuk ishin Inditë (grupe ishujsh në Azi), por një tokë tjetër e panjohur më parë për evropianët.
Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502. On the second of these voyages he discovered that South America extended much further south than previously known by Europeans.
Amerigo Vespucci was born March 9, 1454 in Florence, Italy to Nastagio and Lisabetta Vespucci. His father was a notary in the Florence government. The Vespucci family was well-connected, and Amerigo received an excellent education by his uncle Giorgio Antonio.
Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1451 - 22 February 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He was the first person to explain that the places discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were not part of east Asia, but an unknown continent which he called "The New World".
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Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512) was an Italian sailor and accomplished navigator who made multiple voyages to the Americas under either Portuguese or Spanish funding. He eventually became a Spanish citizen.
Jul 3, 2018 · America was named for Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who claims to have landed on the continent before Christopher Columbus (Credit: Science History Images/Alamy)
Amerigo Vespucci, (born 1454?, Florence—died 1512, Sevilla), Italian-born Spanish navigator and explorer of the New World.
