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Though not mentioned in the text, this date must have been of the year 1500; or at least intended to be so understood by Americus E. The Third Voyage of Americus Vespucius.
Tecumseh J. Driver, M. Driver, A. J. Alderman. Americus W. C. Butler, S. S. Chapman. Le Roy S. G. Brown, Allen Crocker. Little Stranger J. H. Bauserman, S. A. Lacefield, J. Adams, J. P. Bauserman. Iola S. Brown. Nine Mile N. D. Tyler, J. T. Goode, H. Dickson. Garnett J. Ramsey, H. Cavender. Holton E. Cope, J. P. Nichols, T. G. Walters, A. B. Scholes. Pardee Pardee Butler, N. Dunshee.
Martin Waldseemuller divided the globe into four large parts or continents Europe, Asia, Africa, and the newly discovered fourth part, which he suggested "ought to be called America, because Americus discovered it."
He is a Portuguese by birth, and was so desirous of seeing the world, that he divided his estate among his brothers, run the same hazard as Americus Vesputius, and bore a share in three of his four voyages, that are now published; only he did not return with him in his last, but obtained leave of him almost by force, that he might be one of those twenty-four who were left at the farthest place at which they touched, in their last voyage to New Castile.
And some of the map-makers in France, when they had to name the new lands in the West that they drew on their maps the lands that were not the Indies, nor China, nor Japan called them after the man who had told them so much about them Americus Vespucius. And so it is that to-day you live in America and not in Columbia, as so many people have thought this western world of ours should be named.
This professor, like most learned men of his time, wrote in Latin; and in Latin the Italian name Americo is Americus; the feminine form of Americus is America, which was used because it was customary to christen countries with feminine names.
"Young Vesputius is one to whom Americus Vesputius his uncle left the exact knowledge of the mariner's faculties, as it were by inheritance, after his death; for he was a very expert master in the knowledge of his carde, his compasse and the elevation of the pole starre by the quadrant.... Vesputius is my very familiar friend, and a wittie young man, in whose company I take great pleasure, and therefore use him oftentymes for my guest.
Burney distinguishes Americus Backers by special mention. He is said to have been a Dutchman. Between 1772 and 1776, Backers produced the well-known English action, which has remained the most durable and one of the best up to the present day. It refers in direct leverage to Cristofori's first action. It is opposite to Stein's contemporary invention, which has the hopper fixed.
"Undoubtedly," said Mrs Reichardt, "it is apparently unfair that Americus Vespucius should obtain an honour which Christopher Columbus alone had deserved. But of the fame which is the natural right of him whose courage and enterprise procured this unrivalled acquisition, no one can deprive him.
It could no longer be doubted, by those at least who had seen the great mouths of the Amazon and the Plate Rivers, that behind this long stretch of coast lay an immense continent; a projection of Asia, doubtless, separated from it by some narrow strait, perhaps, or possibly by an unknown sea: at any rate, a "boundless land to the south," as Columbus reported; and which "may be called a new world, since our ancestors had no knowledge of it," as Vespucci thought; "a fourth part of the world," said Waldseemüller in his Introduction to Cosmography, published in 1507, "which since Americus discovered it may be called Amerige i.e., Americ's land or America."
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