Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian
explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first
demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent
Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus'
voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass
hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the
New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America,"
probably taking its name from the feminized Latin version of
Vespucci's first name. In his letters are an account of the four
voyages to the Americas made by Vespucci between 1497 and 1504.
From these letters, the European public learned about the newly
discovered continents of the Americas for the first time; its
existence became generally known throughout Europe within a few
years of the letters' publication.
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