Essentials of United States history . to the southVespucci, that he came to the conclusion that the new landswere not islands off the coast of Asia but an entirely newcontinent lying between Asia and Europe. On his return from one of these voyages he wrote a long P?S?S i j^ H| E-mVh *^^M iflni S Sebastian Cabot. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 17 letter in which he described with great enthusiasm all thathe had seen. This letter was so interesting that it was pub-lished in book form and widely circulated. A man by thename of Waldsee-miiller1 added it toa book on geogra-phy that he wasabout to publish
Essentials of United States history . to the southVespucci, that he came to the conclusion that the new landswere not islands off the coast of Asia but an entirely newcontinent lying between Asia and Europe. On his return from one of these voyages he wrote a long P?S?S i j^ H| E-mVh *^^M iflni S Sebastian Cabot. THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 17 letter in which he described with great enthusiasm all thathe had seen. This letter was so interesting that it was pub-lished in book form and widely circulated. A man by thename of Waldsee-miiller1 added it toa book on geogra-phy that he wasabout to it he said,Another fourthpart has been dis-covered by Amer-igo Vespucci . .therefore I do notsee what is rightlyto hinder us fromcalling it Amerigeor America, , theland of Americus,after its a man of saga-cious mind. Thename was adoptedand at first wasapplied only tothe southern conti-nent. By 1541 thewhole hemisphere, north and south, was known as appears to have been no intention on the part of. 1 Martin Waldseemuller (valtza-miil-ler) was a German. He wrote awork called Cosmographice Introductio, to which he added a reprint ofthe four voyages of Vespucci. This work was published in 1507, just ayear after the death of Columbus. 18 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY Vespucci or Waldseemiiller of robbing Columbus of his right-ful honors. Columbus was supposed to be the discoverer ofthe new islands merely, while Vespucci was the explorerof an entirely distinct new world. 18. The South Sea. — The news that a new world lay inthe path to India was not at all welcome to Europeans. Theywanted the wealth of Asia, not the hardships and privationsof an undeveloped continent. Immediately a search for apassage through to Asia began, and this search continued forover three hundred years. The first European to see the oceanon the back side of the continent was a Spanish explorer, Vasco Nunez de Balboa (nooyath da bal-boa)He crossed the isthmus of Darie
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