Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_427
dc.creator	Omodeo Pietro
dc.creator	Omodeo Pietro Daniel
dc.title	Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This book offers a new reconstruction of Amerigo Vespucci’s navigational and scientific endeavours in their historical context. The author argues that all of the manuscripts or texts that Vespucci left to posterity are reliable and true, except for several amendments imposed upon him for reasons linked to the political and economic interests of those who authorised him to undertake his journeys or which were the result of relationships with his companions. The earliest genuine documentation, which dates from the late fifteenth century or early sixteenth century, confirms this position. Fortunately, careful philological studies of Vespucci’s principal written works are available, while some of his original drawings, which confirm, clarify and enrich what he narrated in his letters, can be identified in Waldseemüller’s large map known as Universalis cosmographia (1507).
dc.relation.ispartof	Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-402-8
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-06-03
dc.dateAccepted	2020-01-15
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-12-02
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-403-5/
dc.identifier.issn	2724-1394
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-1572
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-403-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-402-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Amerigo Vespucci
dc.subject	Columbus versus Vespucci: their different achievem
dc.subject	Origin of the New World’s name
dc.subject	Political background of early Renaissance navigati
dc.subject	Textual criticism of Vespucci’s letters
dc.subject	Vespucci’s scientific legacy

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Amerigo Vespucci: The Historical Context of His Explorations and Scientific Contribution

Pietro Omodeo

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Pietro Daniel Omodeo Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

This book offers a new reconstruction of Amerigo Vespucci’s navigational and scientific endeavours in their historical context. The author argues that all of the manuscripts or texts that Vespucci left to posterity are reliable and true, except for several amendments imposed upon him for reasons linked to the political and economic interests of those who authorised him to undertake his journeys or which were the result of relationships with his companions. The earliest genuine documentation, which dates from the late fifteenth century or early sixteenth century, confirms this position. Fortunately, careful philological studies of Vespucci’s principal written works are available, while some of his original drawings, which confirm, clarify and enrich what he narrated in his letters, can be identified in Waldseemüller’s large map known as Universalis cosmographia (1507).

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June 3, 2020

Accepted

Jan. 15, 2020

Submitted

Dec. 2, 2019

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-403-5

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-402-8

Number of pages

224

Dimensions

16x23 cm

Keywords

Amerigo Vespucci • Columbus versus Vespucci: their different achievem • Vespucci’s scientific legacy • Origin of the New World’s name • Political background of early Renaissance navigati • Textual criticism of Vespucci’s letters

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