And why did Waldseemuller used Amerigo's name instead of Columbus'? I thought Columbus was the first to arrive in America (but not necessarily the "very first").
Why did Martin Waldseem眉ller, german mapmaker chose America as the name of the landmass Vespucci discovered?
It was derived from Vespucci's first name Amerigo. Vespucci was the first to identify the New World of North and South America as being separate from Asia.
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