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Amerigo Vespucci: Pilot Major

Book by Frederick J. Pohl; Columbia University Press, 1944

Subjects:

America--Discovery And Exploration, Vespucci, Amerigo--1451-1512

Collections: History, Entire Library

...expeditions, 100 ; Emanuels commission to Amerigo, 101 ; Vespuccis voyage for, 106 -25; western limit of territory...trade, 129 Portuguese, treatment of Columbus and Vespucci, 75 ; Vespuccis attitude toward, 89 , 91 ; conception of league...
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Dynamic Utopia: Establishing Intentional Communities as a New Social Movement

Book by Robert C. Schehr; Bergin & Garvey, 1997

Subjects:

Civil Society, Collective Settlements, Communal Living, Social Movements

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...by the exploration of Amerigo Vespucci. Vespuccis travels to the New World and...Raphael Hythloday accompanied Vespucci as he made his fourth expedition...than returning to Europe with Vespucci, Hythloday pushed beyond the...
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Spain in America, 1450-1580

Book by Edward Gaylord Bourne; Harper & Brothers, 1904

Subjects:

America--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish, Spain--Colonies--America

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Letters of Amerigo Vespucci 1894 . Vespuccis narrative of his first...Varnhagen , Amerigo Vespucci: son Caractere, ses...critical discussion of the Vespucci question is that by...hostile criticism of Vespuccis narrative of his first...
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O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian

Book by John F. Moffitt, Santiago Sebastián; University of New Mexico Press, 1996

Subjects:

America--Description And Travel--Early Works To 1800, Indians--Pictorial Works--History, Indians--Public Opinion--History, Public Opinion--Europe--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...after its author, Amerigo Vespucci. Appearing late in 1504, Vespuccis descriptions of the Mundus...for their author, Amerigo Vespucci, can now appreciate how these...the vernaculars by 1510, Vespuccis much longer account obviously...
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Published Essays: 1940-1952

Book by Ellis Sandoz, Eric Voegelin; University of Missouri Press, 2000

Subjects:

Europe--Race Relations, Germany--Race Relations, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von--1749-1832, History--Philosophy, More, Thomas--Sir, Saint--1478-1535--Utopia, National Socialism--Germany, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm--1844-1900, Philosophy, Political Science--Philosophy, Race, Racism--Germany, Scientism, State, The, Totalitarianism

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Raphael, the philosophical sailor who tells the story of Utopia, was a member of the company of Amerigo Vespucci; and the influence of Vespuccis Mundus Novus (published in 1507 in Waldseemullers Cosmographiae Introductio) is traceable in the Utopia...

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The Naming of America as the Meaning of America: Vespucci, Publicity, Festivity, Modernity

Journal article by Charles Whitney; CLIO, Vol. 22, 1993

Subjects:

America--Discovery, exploration, etc., Names, Geographical--Analysis, Vespucci, Amerigo--Influence

Collections: History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...accounts bearing Vespuccis name: who really...how many times did Vespucci really travel to...circulated under Vespuccis name, such as the...apparently remembered Vespucci and his New World...at the disgusted Vespucci, and admire, as...the community of Vespuccis cannibals. It seems...
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"What's in a Name?" Investigating Whom to Memorialize

Journal article by Arlene Girard, Mary Beth Henning; Social Education, Vol. 71, 2007

Subjects:

Classroom management--Methods, Classroom techniques--Methods, History education--Study and teaching, History--Study and teaching, Onomasiology--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...given the boot, but Amerigo Vespucci survived the day. Reflections...Childrens Press, 1991). Amerigo Vespucci Primary source material: Vespuccis letters to Florence describing...Online biographies of Amerigo Vespucci, www.studyworld.com...
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Roger Williams, Thomas More, and the Narragansett Utopia

Journal article by John J. Teunissen, Evelyn J. Hinz; Early American Literature, Vol. 11, 1976

Subjects:

American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, American Literature--Revolutionary Period, 1775-1783

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...possibility of a true commonwealth when he has Hythloday describe himself as a companion of the great voyager, Vespucci. The words of Vespuccis narrative of his travels which seem specifically to have triggered his imagination were those describing...
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Enlightenment Anti-Imperialism

Journal article by Sankar Muthu; Social Research, Vol. 66, 1999

Subjects:

Social Sciences

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...Recovering a Middle Ground," Social Philosophy and Policy 11 ( 1994 ): 153-180. Vespucci, Amerigo. Letters from a New World: Amerigo Vespuccis Discovery of America . Ed. Luciano Formisano (New York: Marsilio, 1992 ). Vitoria...
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Giorgione's Tempest, Studiolo Culture, and the Renaissance Lucretius *

Journal article by Stephen J. Campbell; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003

Subjects:

Giorgione--Criticism and interpretation, Humanism--History, Lucretius Carus, Titus--Influence, Painting, Renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance painting--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Novus written by Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco...1995, 391. (76.) Vespucci, 49-50. (77.) Ridolfi...pt. 1:140-233. Vespucci, Amerigo. 1992. Letters from a New World Amerigo Vespuccis Discovery of America...

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The Birth of Amerigo Vespucci: March 9th, 1454

Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 54, March 2004

Subjects:

Cartographers--16th century AD, Conduct of life--16th century AD, Explorers--16th century AD, Vespucci, Amerigo

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Birth of Amerigo Vespucci: March 9th, 1454. by Richard Cavendish...by mistake. The claim that Amerigo Vespucci discovered the mainland of the New...historian Samuel Eliot Morison called Vespucci the most controversial character in...
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To the Ends of the Earth

Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 80, February 2008

Subjects:

Explorers--Appreciation, Gama, Vasco da--Appreciation, Magellan, Ferdinand--Appreciation, Royal Geographical Society--Collections and collecting, Vespucci, Amerigo--Appreciation

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...know it today ILLUSTRATION OMITTED an engraving of Italian merchant, cartographer and explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512). Vespucci played an important role in the early voyages to the New World, discovering, between 1499 and 1502, that...
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The Price of Paradise: The Remote Location and High Cost of Living on Brazil's Fernando De Noronha Have Preserved Its Natural Beauty and Limited Tourism

Magazine article by Larry Luxner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, July 2005

Subjects:

Cost and standard of living--Environmental aspects, Cost of living--Environmental aspects, Ecology--Protection and preservation, Fernando de Noronha--Economic aspects

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...Discovered by explorer Amerigo Vespucci in 1503, the island is...Inquisition and financed Vespuccis expedition. "Paradise is here," Vespucci is said to have uttered...he named Sao Lourenco, Vespucci talks about "infinite water...
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America's Namesake

Magazine article by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 34, Winter 2010

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...and Africa. But all Vespucci meant, in an authentic...mapmakers inference that Vespucci had disclosed the existence...Saint-Die set accepted Vespuccis claims to have improved...was so impressed by Vespuccis credentials as a scientific...however, was phony. Vespucci never took an accurate...
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Columbus and the Age of Exploration

Magazine article by Michael Marshall; World and I, Vol. 13, November 1998

Subjects:

Columbus, Christopher--Discovery and exploration, Western Hemisphere--Discovery and exploration

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...earthly paradise. When Amerigo Vespucci sailed with a Spanish expedition...new world as described by Vespucci to the three continents of...with the latinized version of Vespuccis first name, America. The...America is named for Amerigo Vespucci, the first man to declare...

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Germany Delivers 'America's Birth Certificate'; U.S. Officials Accept Map Drawn in 1507

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 1, 2007

Subjects:

Merkel, Angela--Political activity, United States. Library of Congress

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ptholemei traditionem et Americi Vespucci aliorum que lustrationes...and the travels of Amerigo Vespucci and others." It is the first...information from voyages of Vespucci, Christopher Columbus and...the term America to honor Vespuccis view that the land Columbus...
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TEN OF THE GREATEST; Maps That Changed the World; LIVE FOR LISTS

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 9, 2010

Subjects:

Maps, Maps (Geography), United Kingdom. British Library

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Impressed by the writings of Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci, Ringmann suggested that the Americas werent part of Asia...other continents, have a female name - hence America, after Vespuccis first name. Perhaps to emphasise the independent existence...
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Preparing for a Sea of People

Newspaper article by Karyn Spellman; The Washington Times, May 2, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...businesses are preparing for the overflow by keeping more staff on and some by ordering more food. Raymond Lubrano, owner of Vespuccis Restaurant and Bistro on Dock Street, set up an outdoor grill and cash register to lure the business of those who may not...
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Kinkead in Annapolis; Hell Point Seafood at City Dock

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 22, 2009

Subjects:

Restaurants--Restaurant reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...City Dock and nearby Spa Creek. The site was home to Harbor House for years, then for a short stint the Italian restaurant Vespuccis, and, more recently, a Phillips Seafood restaurant. A second-floor dining room offers beautiful views of dock walkers...
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Fabio Lets His Culture Shock out of the Bag; Learning the Hard Way: But at Least Capello Is in the Money Picture: REUTERS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 20, 2008

Subjects:

Premier League

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to his pals back in Venice. Equally, their culture is extraordinarily beautiful is a phrase that mighthave left Amerigo Vespuccis lips after one of his expeditions to the Americas. Were blushing, all right, but not because the England manager has told...

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Vespucci, Amerigo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...southern coast of South America. Vespucci found the mouth of the Rio...the correct measurement. Vespucci accepted South America as...voyage completed in 1502, Vespucci returned to Spain, where...contracted on his voyages. Vespuccis achievements were long belittled...
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WaldseemÜller, Martin

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...separate from Asia) that he published in 1507 together with an explanatory treatise, Cosmographiae introductio, and Amerigo Vespuccis account of his voyages to the New World. A first edition of this rare work is in the New York Public Library. Waldseemuller...
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Argentina

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...eclipsed later by the Araucanians from Chile. Europeans probably first arrived in the region in 1502 in the voyage of Amerigo Vespucci. The southern inhabitants at that time primarily hunted and fished, while the northwestern Incas were agricultural and quite...
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America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AMERICA for Amerigo Vespucci , the lands of the Western Hemisphere North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published...
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CuraÇao

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...repairing. Curacaos ship-repair dry dock is one of the largest in the Americas. History Visited by Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci in 1499, Curacao was not settled by the Spanish until 1527. The Dutch captured it in 1634 and remained in possession except...

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