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Who named America ?
America is the female form from Amerigo
Martin Waldseemüller
(Latinized Martinus Ilacomylus, Ilacomilus or Hylacomylus; 11 September 1470 – 16 March 1520)
was a German cartographer.
He and Matthias Ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Matthias Ringmann (19th-century painting)
Matthias Ringmann
(also known as Philesius Vogesigena) (1482–1511) was a German cartographer and humanist poet.
He is credited with naming America on the map of his friend Martin Waldseemüller in Cosmographiae Introductio.
America is the female form from Amerigo
Martin Waldseemüller
(Latinized Martinus Ilacomylus, Ilacomilus or Hylacomylus; 11 September 1470 – 16 March 1520)
was a German cartographer.
He and Matthias Ringmann are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia in honour of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Matthias Ringmann (19th-century painting)
Matthias Ringmann
(also known as Philesius Vogesigena) (1482–1511) was a German cartographer and humanist poet.
He is credited with naming America on the map of his friend Martin Waldseemüller in Cosmographiae Introductio.
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