Vespucci, Amerigo, navigator, born at Florence; made two voyages to America in 1499 and in 1501, and from him the two continents derived their name, owing, it is said, to his first visit being misdated in an account he left, which made it appear that he had preceded Columbus (1451‒1512).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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