both were from Portugal and hired by the queen of Spain.
2006-07-08 10:18:27 · 7 answers · asked by cineone 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
AMERIGO Vespucci and Columbus never sailed together. Vespucci, while being a cartographer, was primarily an explorer. He is credited with being the one to acknowledge the Americas as new continents (Columbus thought he had reached Asia til he died). His accounts of his travels were well read and inspired a mapmaker named Martin Waldseemüller to name the new continents after his favorite explorer. His maps sold well and the name stuck. He was Italian by birth, Spanish by naturalization, and sailed for both Spain and Portugal.
2006-07-08 12:00:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anthony F 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It's new to me that Vespucci ever met Columbus I'm lean to believe that they didn't live during the same century.
2006-07-08 18:46:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vespucci was a map maker.
2006-07-08 17:21:54 · answer #3 · answered by bought_with_his_blood_777 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And here I'd heard that he was a merchant who had heard of Columbus' voyage, then gone out on one for himself.
2006-07-08 17:22:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hired by queen elizibeth to map the new world
2006-07-08 17:30:15 · answer #5 · answered by shawn s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to tell you this, but they never MET , let alone sailing on the same boat at the same time
2006-07-08 17:39:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a cartographer (map maker).
2006-07-08 17:21:46 · answer #7 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋