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But Vespucci's letters hugely impressed others, including German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller, who in 1507 published the first map to label a depiction of Vespucci's New World America in his honor.
Amerigo Vespucci, meanwhile, also looking for new routes to Asia, ran ashore in Brazil in 1499 and realized that something was not right.
Still, we should be grateful that Waldseemuller opted for Vespucci's first name, for disguising the dull Henry in the voluptuous Amerigo is nothing compared to what Italians have done over the centuries when giving each other surnames.
' This brings Amerigo Vespucci into the picture.
Which brings me back to Martin Waldseemuller and Amerigo Vespucci and why we should give thanks that the German fell under the spell of the Italian's first name rather than his last.