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The people of Europe either never knew that he had discovered the mainland or had forgotten it altogether. But they heard a great deal about Americus and his doings. It is not strange that Americus rather than Columbus was long regarded as the true discoverer of America. Martin Waldseemueller, a professor of geography at the college of St. Die, now in eastern France, wrote a book on geography.
In his description of the parts of the world unknown to the ancients, he suggested naming the continent stretching to the south for Americus. Ejus situm et gentis mores ex bis binis Americi navigationibus quae sequuntur liquide intelligidatur. Waldseemueller thought Americus had been the real discoverer of this continent.
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