Amerigo Vespucci
Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer
- Fame69.6
- Momentum0.0
- Scientists rank#86
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- Fame69.6
- Momentum0.0
- Scientists rank#86
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Lived 1454–1512, aged 58
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Updated 2026-06-08
Two continents carry his name, yet historians still argue over what he actually did. Vespucci's widely-read voyage accounts — disputed for authorship and truth — convinced a mapmaker in 1507 to label the New World "America," a choice that stuck long after the man himself was forgotten.
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Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence on 9 March 1454 and made at least two voyages across the Atlantic between 1497 and 1504, sailing first for Spain and then Portugal. In 1503 and 1505, booklets appeared under his name describing these expeditions in vivid detail; they became bestsellers across Europe, though their authorship and accuracy remain contested. Vespucci claimed that by 1501 he'd grasped what others had missed: Brazil belonged to a fourth continent unknown to Europeans, a "New World" distinct from Asia. That insight reached cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who in 1507 applied th…
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