Matthias Ringmann
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Matthias Ringmann, also known as Philesius Vogesigena, was an Alsatian German humanist scholar and cosmographer. Along with cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, he is credited with the first documented
Matthias Ringmann (19th-century painting)
Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom the Americas are named.
Matthias Ringmann
…he is credited with the first documented usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Ringmann was born in 1482 in the small farming village of Eichhoffen, Alsace. In 1498 he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg and then went on to…
Portrait attrib. Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, c. 1590–1637
Portrait of a young member of the Vespucci family, identified as Amerigo by Giorgio Vasari
Depiction of Vespucci's first encounter with Native Americans, alleged to have occurred in 1497 (De Bry engraving, c. 1592)
Vespucci's second voyage depicted in the first known edition of his letter to Piero Soderini, published by Pietro Pacini in Florence c. 1505