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The "New World" is an early modern term describing the majority of lands in the Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas, and sometimes Oceania. It was introduced in the early 16th century, durin
Amerigo Vespucci awakens the sleeping America, a late 16th-century illustration depicting Amerigo Vespucci's voyages to the Americas
Historia antipodum oder newe Welt, or History of the New World, by Matthäus Merian the Elder, published in 1631
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.
New World
…particularly the Americas, and sometimes Oceania. It was introduced in the early 16th century, during Europe's Age of Discovery, by Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who published the pamphlet Mundus novus, presenting his conclusion that the lands discovered west of the Atlantic Ocean (soon called America after…
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