| A year later, Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci sailed to Brazil on a voyage commissioned by the Portuguese crown and returned home with a cargo of hard, reddish wood. |
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| Amerigo Vespucci, geographer and traveler from whose name the word America is derived. |
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| However, it is not independently confirmed Vespucci was aboard and there are some difficulties in the reported dates and details. |
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| By comparing the positions of the moon and Mars with their anticipated positions, Vespucci was able to crudely deduce his longitude. |
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| Vespucci also ran a school for navigators in the Spanish House of Trade, based in Seville. |
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| He travelled with the pilot and cartographer Juan de la Cosa and the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. |
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| Europeans first arrived in the region with the 1502 voyage of Amerigo Vespucci. |
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| As explained in Cosmographiae Introductio, the name was bestowed in honor of the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. |
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| He also came to believe that Amerigo Vespucci had discovered South America. |
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| Amerigo Vespucci was educated by his uncle, Fra Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican friar of the monastery of San Marco in Florence. |
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| Vespucci organized the fulfillment of Berardi's outstanding contract with the Castilian crown to provide twelve vessels for the Indies. |
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| Allegedly the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci participated as observer at the invitation of King Manuel I in the same expedition. |
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| It is planned to be connected to Vespucci airport, Santa Maria Novella railway station, and to the city centre by the second line of Tramvia. |
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| As Vespucci did not return to Lisbon until September, 1504, the discovery must have been earlier. |
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| In the 18th century, three unpublished familiar letters from Vespucci to Lorenzo de' Medici were rediscovered. |
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| On Coelho's orders, Vespucci anchored at the island, and spent a week there, while the rest of the Coelho fleet went on south. |
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| According to Vespucci, this expedition returned to Lisbon in September 1502, just on time to influence the final composition of the Cantino map. |
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| The two disputed letters claim that Vespucci made four voyages to America, while at most two can be verified from other sources. |
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| Amerigo Vespucci, working for Portugal in voyages from 1497 to 1513, established that Columbus had reached a new set of continents. |
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| At the moment, there is a dispute between historians on when Vespucci visited the mainland the first time. |
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| However, many scholars now believe that the two letters were not written by him but were fabrications by others based in part on genuine letters by Vespucci. |
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| After joining the Portuguese exploration of Brazil in 1500, Amerigo Vespucci coined the term New World, in his letters to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. |
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| In his letters, Vespucci described this trip, and once Juan de la Cosa returned to Spain, a famous world map, depicting Cuba as an island, was produced. |
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| Amerigo Vespucci was born and raised in Florence on the Italian Peninsula. |
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| Two letters attributed to Vespucci were published during his lifetime. |
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| Some have suggested that Vespucci, in the two letters published in his lifetime, was exaggerating his role and constructed deliberate fabrications. |
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| The term was coined by Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci. |
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| The letter, to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, claims that Vespucci determined his longitude celestially on August 23, 1499, while on this voyage. |
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| After the first half of the expedition, Vespucci mapped Alpha and Beta Centauri, as well as the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross and the Coalsack Nebula. |
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| Not long after his return to Spain, Vespucci became a Spanish citizen. |
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| In late 1499, Alonso de Ojeda had discovered much of the Venezuelan coast, with one of his squadrons, under Amerigo Vespucci exploring parts of what is now northern Brazil. |
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| Comparing notes, it probably dawned on Vespucci that it was simply impossible to square what he knew of the Americas with what the men of the 2nd Armada knew of Asia. |
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| Among his crew was a Florentine resident in Seville, Amerigo Vespucci. |
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| Vespucci once more accompanied him, now as captain of one of the ships. |
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