Espagne/Amériques: Italien Amerigo Vespucci (9 mars 1454 - 22 février 1512), explorateur, navigateur et cartographe. Illustration de la coupe de bois, c. 1505. Amerigo Vespucci était un explorateur, navigateur et cartographe italien, né et élevé par son oncle dans la République de Florence, dans ce qui est maintenant l'Italie. Vespucci travaille pour Lorenzo de Medici et son fils Giovanni. En 1492, il est envoyé travailler à la succursale de Séville de la banque Medici. À l'invitation du roi Manuel I du Portugal, Vespucci a participé en qualité d'observateur à plusieurs voyages qui ont exploré la côte est de l'Amérique du Sud de 1499 à 1502

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Amerigo Vespucci (9 March 1454 - 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer, born and brought up by his uncle in the Republic of Florence, in what is now Italy. Vespucci worked for Lorenzo de Medici and his son, Giovanni. In 1492, he was sent to work at the Seville branch of the Medici bank. At the invitation of King Manuel I of Portugal, Vespucci participated as an observer in several voyages that explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502. Manuel's commander Pedro Alvares Cabral, on his way to the Cape of Good Hope and India in 1500, had discovered Brazil at latitude 16°52'S. Portugal claimed this land by the Treaty of Tordesillas, and the king wished to know whether it was merely an island or part of the continent that Spanish explorers had encountered further north. Vespucci, having already been to the Brazilian shoulder, seemed the person best qualified to go as an observer with the new expedition. Vespucci did not command at the start; in fact, he had no experience in piloting a ship. The Portuguese captain was Gonçalo Coelho, but Vespucci took charge at the request of the Portuguese officers. On the first of these voyages, he was aboard the ship that discovered that South America extended much further south than previously thought. The expeditions became widely known in Europe after two accounts attributed to Vespucci were published between 1502 and 1504. In 1507, Martin Waldseemuller produced a world map on which he named the new continent America after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo.

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