The name of the navigator was named the mainland
Amerigo Vespucci was from a noble but impoverished family, he received a home education in humanitarian studies. In 1491 he arrived in the Spanish city of Seville, where he became involved in the banking and financial affairs of the Medici family and, in particular, preparing the second and third expeditions of Christopher Columbus.
Unambiguous data on the number of voyages made by Vespucci most, no. But it is reliably known that from May 1499 to June 1500, he participated in the role of navigator in the expedition of Alonso de Ojeda, who traveled from Spain to South-West on four ships.
Off the coast of modern Guyana, the expedition split up, and Vespucci's ship proceeded south. Passing the mouth of the Amazon, he reached the present Cape St. Augustine, from where he turned back and through Trinidad and Haiti arrived in Spain.
Sincerely believing that he had discovered a large peninsula, bypassing which one can get into the Indian Ocean, Vespucci turned to the Spanish government for support in organizing a new expedition to India. Having been refused, he moved to the service of the Portuguese king. With his help, on May 13, 1501, Vespucci set out on his second expedition, during which he reached the north coast of Brazil.
Vespucci brought fame in Europe not so much to his expedition, as to the descriptions of the lands of New World he had discovered in the book Travel Notes. In 1507, the Germans Waldzemüller and Matias Ringman with a circulation of one thousand copies printed a world map on which the New World was named after Vespucci - America.
Unambiguous data on the number of voyages made by Vespucci most, no. But it is reliably known that from May 1499 to June 1500, he participated in the role of navigator in the expedition of Alonso de Ojeda, who traveled from Spain to South-West on four ships.
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Off the coast of modern Guyana, the expedition split up, and Vespucci's ship proceeded south. Passing the mouth of the Amazon, he reached the present Cape St. Augustine, from where he turned back and through Trinidad and Haiti arrived in Spain.
Sincerely believing that he had discovered a large peninsula, bypassing which one can get into the Indian Ocean, Vespucci turned to the Spanish government for support in organizing a new expedition to India. Having been refused, he moved to the service of the Portuguese king. With his help, on May 13, 1501, Vespucci set out on his second expedition, during which he reached the north coast of Brazil.
Vespucci brought fame in Europe not so much to his expedition, as to the descriptions of the lands of New World he had discovered in the book Travel Notes. In 1507, the Germans Waldzemüller and Matias Ringman with a circulation of one thousand copies printed a world map on which the New World was named after Vespucci - America.
