
	Where results make sense

Topic: Vespucci

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Amerigo Vespucci
		Vespucci received his first instruction from his uncle Giorgio Antonio, a Platonic philosopher who was a teacher of the greater part of the Florentine nobility.
		Vespucci was certainly held in high esteem in Spain, where he established himself after his voyages in the service of Portugal.
		But as regards Vespucci, there are, at Florence, the apocryphal synchronous copies of all the accounts of his voyages, except the text that was used for the publication of the "Mundus novus", of which accounts, as will be seen further on, a correct edition is lacking.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15384b.htm (2707 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		Vespucci received his first instruction from his uncle Giorgio Antonio, a Platonic philosopher who was a teacher of the greater part of the Florentine nobility.
		Vespucci was certainly held in high esteem in Spain, where he established himself after his voyages in the service of Portugal.
		But as regards Vespucci, there are, at Florence, the apocryphal synchronous copies of all the accounts of his voyages, except the text that was used for the publication of the "Mundus novus", of which accounts, as will be seen further on, a correct edition is lacking.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/vespucci,amerigo.html (2307 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci: Tutte le informazioni su Amerigo Vespucci su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amerigo Vespucci (9 marzo, 1454 - 22 febbraio, 1512), mercante genovese, navigatore e profondo conoscitore dei mari, durante i suoi viaggi esplorò gran parte delle coste orientali del Sud America.
		Alcuni sostengono che Vespucci abbia esagerato il suo ruolo e romanzato gli avvenimenti, altri che abbia contraffatto gli originali di altri viaggiatori dell'epoca.
		Oggi gli storici sono concordi nel ritenere che Vespucci non compì nessun viaggio nel 1497 (che secondo l'autore delle lettere sarebbe iniziato il 10 maggio dello stesso anno da Cadice).
	www.encyclopedia.it /a/am/amerigo_vespucci.html (375 words)

	Jamie Canaday (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vespucci told Lorenzo he knew it was a new continent because of the variety of inhabitants and the overall size.
		Vespucci was to teach all pilots of Spain in skills of navigation, cosmography, and he was to direct the construction of hydrographic charts, inspect navigational instruments and to investigate any navigation problems [Pohl 184].
		Vespucci was the first European to reach the shores of Brazil, and the first to explore its coastline; he was the first on the coasts of Columbia, Uruguay, and Argentina [Pohl 196].
	muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/papers/canaday.html (2964 words)

	Amerigo_Vespucci
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in March of 1451, and grew up in a considerable mansion near the river.
		In 1497 Vespucci said that he went on a voyage to the "New World." Little is known about this because there was not much evidence to support that he actually made this voyage such as: journals, maps they used, or any crew members journals about what happened.
		Vespucci also claimed, in his writings, that he captioned all the journeys himself when he only captained one of the four reported expedition.
	www.studyworld.com /Amerigo_Vespucci.htm (762 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci: A Who2 Profile
		Vespucci was employed by the Florentine Medici family as a representative for their operations in Seville, Spain.
		Although the record is unclear, it is generally accepted that Vespucci sailed with Ojeda to the northeastern coast of South America in 1499, under the flag of Spain.
		Vespucci is said to have made a guess at the world's circumference that was accurate within 50 miles.
	www.who2.com /amerigovespucci.html (268 words)

	Vespucci, Amerigo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Vespucci found the mouth of the Río de la Plata and probably went as far as lat.
		His voyage completed in 1502, Vespucci returned to Spain, where in 1508 he was made pilot major, a high and prestigious position.
		Vespucci’s achievements were long belittled by scholars, but the conclusions of Alberto Magnaghi in the 1920s and 30s are now widely accepted, and the pilot major is given his due.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ve/Vespucci.html (343 words)

	biographie vespucci
		Vespucci was the son of Nastagio, a notary.
		Vespucci thought he had sailed along the coast of the extreme easterly peninsula of Asia, where Ptolemy, the geographer, believed the market of Cattigara to be; so he looked for the tip of this peninsula, calling it Cape Cattigara.
		It is uncertain whether Vespucci took part in yet another expedition (1503-04) for the Portuguese government (it is said that he may have been with one under Gonzalo Coelho).
	www.bigoid.de /conquista/biographien/vespucci.htm (1011 words)

	Unità Navali (Site not responding. Last check: )
		L'Amerigo Vespucci, invece, fu impostata il 12 maggio 1930 nel Regio Cantiere Navale di Castellamare di Stabia, fu varata il 22 febbraio 1931 ed entrò in servizio a luglio dello stesso anno.
		Sui viaggi effettuati da Vespucci sono sorte nel tempo numerose controversie storiche; in relazione a diverse tipologie di documenti esistono due differenti tesi sul numero di viaggi a lui attribuibili: due o quattro; i più recenti studi sono tesi a stabilire in quattro il numero reale.
		Dal punto di vista tecnico-costruttivo l'Amerigo Vespucci è una Nave a Vela con motore; dal punto di vista dell'attrezzatura velica è "armata a Nave", quindi con tre alberi verticali, trinchetto, maestra e mezzana, tutti dotati di pennoni e vele quadre, più il bompresso sporgente a prora, a tutti gli effetti un quarto albero.
	www.marina.difesa.it /unita/vespucci.htm (2906 words)

	National Columbus Celebration Association (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in 1454.
		Vespucci was described as having a "sagacious" (scientific) mind (Pohl 55) and was educated in the areas of commercial science, cosmology, astronomy and geography.
		Vespucci, picking up where Columbus left off; was the one to conclude that it was not Asia that his predecessor had found (Columbus died thinking it was) but it was indeed a new, previously unknown land.
	www.columbuscelebration.org /Essays/Essay97.htm (928 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why was America named after Amerigo Vespucci?
		For centuries it was argued that Amerigo Vespucci was a fraud who had never traveled to the continent that bore his name and did not deserve to have either of his names applied to anything.
		Vespucci came to the world's attention chiefly through the publication in 1503 and 1504 of two brief letters he purportedly wrote to Lorenzo de Medici about a voyage undertaken for the king of Portugal.
		Obviously the work of an educated man (the Vespuccis were a prosperous family in Florence), the letters managed to be both scholarly and entertaining, combining a sober discussion of navigational issues with the news that the natives of the New World would have sex with anybody, including Mom.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a4_021.html (724 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci - MSN Encarta
		Vespucci later set out for the New World himself and left accounts and maps of four voyages.
		Most scholars agree that Vespucci explored a large section of the northern coast of South America during an expedition led by Spanish soldier Alonso de Ojeda in 1499 and 1500.
		German geographer and cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, who translated Vespucci's narrative in 1507, was the first to use America, an adaptation of the explorer's given name of Amerigo, as a name for the southern continent.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569948/Vespucci_Amerigo.html (214 words)

	No. 43: Amerigo Vespucci
		Vespucci finally outfitted his own voyage in quest of the passage to the Indian subcontinent that had eluded Columbus.
		Vespucci made two voyages between 1499 and 1502 and possibly a third one in 1503.
		Columbus found the new world, but Vespucci was the man who recognized that it was a new world.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi43.htm (476 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		His father, Nastagio (Anastasio) Vespucci, was a notary, and his uncle, Fra Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, to whom he owed his education, was a scholarly Dominican and a friend of Girolamo Savonarola.
		Vespucci claims to have sailed with one of these "freelance" expeditions from Cadiz on the 10th of May 1497.
		On the 24th of April 1505, Vespucci received Spanish letters of naturalization; and on the 6th of August 1508 was appointed piloto mayor or chief pilot of Spain, an office which he held until his death at Seville on the 22nd of February 1512.
	www.nndb.com /people/438/000085183 (1074 words)

	Hattrick - The Coyote's - RFC Vespucci
		Vespucci held the ball, with a clear 64 percent of possession.
		Vespucci's Kirilos Galanos was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick freekick in the 58th minute.
		Joshua Veraar was called on to replace Vespucci's Kirilos Galanos in the 75th minute, after a nasty collision in the field.
	www.hattrick.org /Common/matchDetails.asp?matchID=92268021 (424 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Vespucci, in all probability, voyaged to America at the time ascribed, but he did not have command and as yet had had no practical experience of piloting.
		Vespucci did not command at the start--the Portuguese captain was probably Gonçalo Coelho--but ultimately took charge at the request of the Portuguese officers.
		Vespucci, whatever his earlier beliefs had been, now realized that this could be no part of Asia, as flora, fauna, and human inhabitants in no way corresponded to what ancient writers, and such later ones as Marco Polo, had described.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/amerigo-vespucci (1150 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy, as the third child of a respected family.
		Vespucci claimed, in a letter to Lorenzo di Medici, that he determined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voyage.
		Amerigo Vespucci died in Seville, Spain, in 1512.
	voyager.in /Amerigo_Vespucci (667 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy on March 9, 1454.
		In 1501-1502 Vespucci sailed for Portugal to what is now Rio de Janeiro and then further south along the coast of South America.
		While Vespucci’s writings and discoveries were debated throughout the world, it was through these letters that Europe first learned about America.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php/Amerigo_Vespucci (306 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		VESPUCCI, AMERIGO (1451-1512), a Florentine merchant-adventurer whose selfgenerated claims as an explorer and as the first white man to reach the mainland of America in June 1497 have been doubted owing to the impossible distances and positions quoted in the letters in which the claims were made.
		Vespucci's letters described four voyages in all to the New World, the first a private venture, the second under the Spaniard Alonzo de Ojeda, and the last two in the service of King Manoel of Portugal.
		What Vespucci must have thought about the gang of piratical explorers he got involved with, is anybody's guess.
	www.vrcurassow.com /2dvrc/discovery/vespucci.html (1404 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci
		He was of a wealthy family of merchants, and received his education from his uncle, Giorgi Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican friar, a friend and colleague of Savonarola.
		He engaged in business, first in Florence and afterward in Seville, where he met Columbus, perhaps as early as 1493, and where in 1497 he equipped the fleet with which that navigator sailed on his third voyage.
		The controversy as to whether Vespucci took precedence both of the (Jabots and of Columbus in the discovery of the mainland of America has been for centuries a matter of dispute.
	www.virtualology.com /virtualmuseumofhistory/hallofexplorers/AMERIGOVESPUCCI.ORG (576 words)

	[No title]
		Amerigo Vespucci was the third child born to his Italian parents in Florence in 1452.
		Amerigo Vespucci (born in Florence in 1452), whose name was given to the American continents by Waldsmuller in 1507, worked in Seville (where he died) in the business house which fitted out Columbus' second expedition.
		When Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454, in the wealthy city of Florence seemed the very center of the world to the people.
	www.lycos.com /info/amerigo-vespucci.html (419 words)

	Amerogo Vespucci
		The Amerigo Vespucci was built in 1930 in the style of the 19th century type of large frigates.
		The Amerigo Vespucci belongs to the Accademie Navale in Livorno.
		The Amerigo Vespucci was modernised in 1951 and 1958 and had her last major overhaul in 1964.
	pages.intnet.mu /serenissima/amerogo_vespucci.htm (207 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci Report (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vespucci claimed to have been to a new world four times.
		Vespucci became a Spanish citizen in 1505 and went to work for a government agency that over saw commerce with the new world.
		Amerigo Vespucci was a great explorer and if he was never born America probably never would have been called America.
	www.blaine.wednet.edu /bes/class/dennison/writing/Connor/vespucci_rep.htm (300 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci Biography (Explorer) — Infoplease.com
		Vespucci was employed by the Florentine Medici family as a representative for their operations in Seville, Spain.
		Although the record is unclear, it is generally accepted that Vespucci sailed with Ojeda to the northeastern coast of South America in 1499, under the flag of Spain.
		Vespucci is said to have made a guess at the world's circumference that was accurate within 50 miles.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/amerigovespucci.html (427 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Vespucci,
		While in the service of the king of Portugal, Vespucci made several voyages to the New World and claimed, on dubious authority, to have been the first to sight the mainland of South America (1497).
		He accompanied Alonso de Ojeda in 1499, but by agreement the two separated shortly before land was sighted in the West Indies, and Vespucci...
		The naming of America as the meaning of America: Vespucci, publicity, festivity, modernity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Vespucci,&StartAt=1 (691 words)

	Amerigo Vespucci - Bell Library: Maps and Mapmakers
		Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512) was born in Florence, where he worked for the commercial house of the Medici family as a young man. Perhaps he studied astronomy at this time.
		The two were friends: Columbus, in a letter to his son in 1505, speaks favorably about Vespucci, as a witness for his will.
		The well-traveled Vespucci returned to Seville in 1505, received Spanish citizenship, and three years later was appointed as the "Pilot Major" for the Casa de Contratación.
	www.bell.lib.umn.edu /map/WALD/AMER/vesbio.html (234 words)

	Vespucci Family Papers (Library of Congress)
		THE PAPERS OF THE VESPUCCI FAMILY Prepared by Michael Spangler Manuscript Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C. The papers of the Vespucci Family were given to the Library of Congress by German Arciniegas in 1993.
		Vespucci, Anastagio (1426-82), 1478 Vespucci, Antonio (1449-1534), 1476-1526 Vespucci, Bartolomeo (1479-1527), 1504, n.d.
		Vespucci, Bernardo (1422-), 1454-76 Vespucci, Bernardo (1455-1527), 1481-89 Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio (1434-1514), 1456-99, 1955, n.d.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/vespucci.html (528 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)