Amerigo Vespucci
Britishnoun
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“We’re talking about replacing it with another statue. Maybe, Amerigo Vespucci? Mother Cabrini, the patron saint of immigrants?”
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2020
He interviewed all the intrepid mariners of the day, including Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci and Sebastian Cabot, and examined their ships’ logs and charts.
From Washington Times • Mar. 28, 2020
Amerigo Vespucci, whose name is the one that stuck?
From Scientific American • Nov. 12, 2019
Or maybe America itself should be my first name, after Amerigo Vespucci, the cartographer whose first name — Americus in Latin — has become a part of all our American identities.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2019
Galileo, when in 1610 he announced to the world what he had seen through his telescope, was compared to his fellow Florentine Amerigo Vespucci, to Christopher Columbus and to Ferdinand Magellan.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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