what was the name of columbus's mapmaker/ the person america is named after?

Answer 1

Amerigo Vespucci
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Answer 2

Just from what I have read on wikipedia and other sites, Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was a genius at the studies of COSMOGRAPHY (the science that maps the main features of the heavens and earth, and includes the studies of ASTRONOMY--which he was also a genius at--geography, and geology), and worked with his brother BARTHOLOMEW (or Bartolome) as mapmakers.


The site, www.osia.org/public/pdf/Columbus_Accom.pdf (need adobe reader to see the full story), has an article on Columbus' accomplishments as an explorer. This section is about his navigational skills. :


NAVIGATIONAL:
• Columbus was the first European to realize the full importance of the Atlantic wind pattern
called the prevailing Westerlies, which blew steadily west to east. This convinced him it was
possible to sail west with the Trade Winds to the New World and return to Europe with the
Westerlies.
• During his four transatlantic voyages, Columbus chartered the route for what today are the
islands of Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Lesser Antilles
and the coasts of Panama, Honduras and Venezuela.
• Columbus’s trans-Atlantic route lay the foundation for future navigation in the region. His
maps were USED
by Amerigo Vespucci (after whom the American continent takes its name),
whose maps were used by later explorers of South America. Columbus’s maps also helped
Magellan follow the coasts of South America during his voyage around the world.
• The route across the Atlantic Ocean that Columbus charted in the 15th century is still used by
sailors today.
• Columbus introduced the principle of compass variation (the variation at any point on the
Earth’s surface between the direction to magnetic and geographic north) and observed the
rotation of the Pole star.


So, even though America was named after Vespucci (who lived about the same time as Columbus, 1454-1512), he used COLUMBUS' maps, not the other way around.

Answer 3

Amerigo Vespucci

Vespucci was the one person for whom North and South America was named after.

According to map routes Columbus had set... another sailor Amerigo Vespucci, Italian by birth... set across the oceans to know more about what Columbus had written about his trips.... He wanted to prove that more land (South America) did exist than what had been written about it.... and finally he reached america through his trips to South america....

Thus, though America was discovered by Columbus first... since Amerigo was the first person to formally show that America existed on the world map and depict it in his maps... America has been named after Amerigo Vespucci and not Columbus.

Answer 4

I don't think that he was Columbus's mapmaker, but the name is Amerigo Vespucci.

Answer 5

I believe he was a navigator Amerigo vespucci

Answer 6

Just think how close we came to being the United States of Vespuccia.

Answer 7

Informative discussion, just what I was searching for.

Answer 8

Jeff, I hope you're 'Bookmarking' all those reference sites...