When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Vespucci pressed on, however, and discovered the island of Bahia and South Georgia before returning to Lisbon ahead of schedule ("The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci," Forgotten Books, 2017) .

Born in Florence in 1454, Vespucci was an enterprising businessman but also held a passion for maps. His continental discovery began to shape world maps shortly after: The German cartographer Martin ...

But a new book portrays Amerigo Vespucci as little more than a con man with a wild imagination. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto talks about his book, Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America . NPR ...

1454: Amerigo Vespucci is born in Florence, Italy. He’ll give his name to two continents. Vespucci, the son of a notary, went to work for the Medici banking house. They dispatched him as an ...

America wasn't named for Christopher Columbus (left), but for Amerigo Vespucci (right). (Image credit: Shutterstock) But letters from the Italian Vespucci (1459-1512) were far more popular.

Martin Waldseemüller's map incorporated recent reports from explorer Amerigo Vespucci — and gave credit ... Waldseemüller aimed to reconcile the recent discoveries of Vespucci and others with ...

Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville, who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda, and whose highest naval rank was boatswain’s mate in an expedition that never sailed, managed in ...