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AMERICA GOT HER NAME FROM THIS 1507 MAP
Atlas Obscura ^
| November 9, 2015
| ERIC GRUNDHAUSER
Posted on 11/13/2015 5:37:41 AM PST by NYer
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:37:41 AM PST
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NYer
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:40:07 AM PST
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NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: NYer
I was always partial to Vespuchiland myself.
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:40:27 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: NYer
How did the cartographer know the general outline of western south america? Magellan didn’t get passed the straits of magellan till 1520. Who was there before?
To: NYer
Nice! Interesting to see the rivers ‘named’, along the Eastern coast.
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:44:25 AM PST
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: NYer
I know it was named after Amerigo (go Italians!) :)
I wonder how America came about from that name.
And to be honest, I have to read up why it was named after him.
Lots of explorers here at the time.
I have no doubt anymore that there is no question that cannot be answered on this board. :)
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:44:52 AM PST
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dp0622
To: Tax-chick; GregB; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; Salvation; ...
After centuries away from the public eye, the impressive collection was rediscovered inà 1901 when a Jesuit scholar found it sitting in the collection of a German prince. Ping!
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:47:09 AM PST
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NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: dp0622
If discovered today, no one would be allowed to enter it as it would be declared official green space and subject to UN mandates.
To: NYer
“we now know that North and South America are a single continent”
By that reasoning, we have AfroEurAsia as well.
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:49:24 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
To: Eternal_Bear
How did the cartographer know the general outline of western south america? Magellan didnât get passed the straits of magellan till 1520. Who was there before?...
Always wondered that myself with these old maps. How did they know the relative size of everything?
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:51:02 AM PST
by
Hang'emAll
(If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
To: Eternal_Bear
Who was there before?Pedro Ãlvares Cabral
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posted on
11/13/2015 5:52:31 AM PST
by
Stentor
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
To: dp0622
And to be honest, I have to read up why it was named after him.According to the article:
Honoring Vespucci's findings, Waldseem's map named the new continent "America" after the Latin feminine construction of the explorer's name.
Not sure why FR's software is replacing punctuation with characters but perhaps that is why you missed it.
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11/13/2015 5:53:26 AM PST
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NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: NYer
The name originally applied to South America and was later extended to North America. According to an account I read, I think by Samuel Eliot Morrison, Waldseemueller had read a narrative by Vespucci in which he claimed to have seen South America one year before Columbus (in fact, Columbus saw the mainland of South America before Vespucci did). So he named the land mass after Vespucci thinking he was the first explorer to see it.
Vespucci was not in command of an expedition but simply a passenger. There is a painting in Florence by Ghirlandaio which is thought to include him.
Columbus did see both continents (a bit of the coast of Venezuela, and a bit of the coast of Central America). He died in 1506, the year before Waldseemueller's map. Vespucci lived until 1512.
To: dp0622
The Latin form of Amerigo is Americus (as in Americus, Georgia). Because the names of Asia, Africa, and Europe (Europa) are feminine in Latin, Waldseemueller used the feminine form of "Americus" for the New World.
When Australia and Antarctica were discovered, they were also given feminine names.
To: NYer
To: Eternal_Bear; All
Magellan didnât get passed the straits of magellan till 1520. Who was there before?
To: NYer
Would be quiet the lifetime adventure to take off on small slow leaky wind powered craft using such a map!
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posted on
11/13/2015 6:07:28 AM PST
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: Eternal_Bear
The story I read was that a guy had an old map and saw a name on it similar to America so he changed his name so it would look like he named it after himself. The Mayans and others were here long before “White people”.
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posted on
11/13/2015 6:07:58 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Verginius Rufus
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posted on
11/13/2015 6:11:29 AM PST
by
dp0622
To: NYer
no, i missed it because i’m a nervous NYCer who never takes things nice and slow and never reads things slowly and thoroughly.
I will change that and start to enjoy the articles :)
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11/13/2015 6:15:54 AM PST
by
dp0622
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