Columbus 'Discovered' The New World …So Why Isn't America Named After Him?

[JMAC]

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https://www.livescience.com/63778-wh...-columbus.html

"But Columbus adamantly repeated that he had found Asia, possibly to ensure that he would keep the wealth and titles that Spain had promised him, Crawford said."

"This stance made some of Columbus' contemporaries view him as duplicitous and not credible, Crawford said. Meanwhile, the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama traveled from Portugal to India and back again by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa from 1497 to 1499, meaning Portugal had beat Spain in the race to India.

The Spanish crown was apparently so unhappy with Columbus' failure to get to Asia and also this mounting reputation he was getting for duplicity, that was part of the reason why they sent an agent to the Caribbean to arrest Columbus and bring him back to Spain," Crawford said. "He was later stripped of his titles."

In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller created the first map to use the name America.
"As for why the land mass was named "America" and not "Amerigo," an introduction in a pamphlet that Waldseemüller wrote for the map notes that "Inasmuch as both Europe and Asia received their names from women, I see no reason why anyone should justly object to calling this part Amerige, i.e., the land of Amerigo, or America, after Amerigo, its discoverer, a man of great ability."

In subsequent 1513 and 1516 maps, Waldseemüller stopped using the name America and instead used the names "Terra Incognita," and "Terra Nova," possibly because he realized that it was Columbus, and not Vespucci, who had arrived first in the New World, Crawford said. But by then it was too late; other mapmakers had already copied him and spread the name far and wide. The name America was firmly rooted by the end of the 1500s, Crawford said.



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[US Blues]

"Christopher Columbus was a damn blasted liar!"

~ Burning Spear

Mr. Spear is simply pointing out the fact that nobody can claim to discover a place where people have been living for uncounted thousands of years.

[Antonmb]

And the Firesign Theatre pointed out many years ago that it really should have been Vespucciland.[emoji41]

[JMAC]

Originally Posted by US Blues

"Christopher Columbus was a damn blasted liar!"

~ Burning Spear

Mr. Spear is simply pointing out the fact that nobody can claim to discover a place where people have been living for uncounted thousands of years.

I haven't revisited it, but I think that statement was in reference to his never- ending claim that he had discovered Asia. ??


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[JoeN]

While the colonies may have established it, “America” was given a name long before. America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent. A map created in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller was the first to depict this new continent with the name “America,” a Latinized version of “Amerigo.”

https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2016/07/ho...-get-its-name/

[piolaxo]

Originally Posted by US Blues

"Christopher Columbus was a damn blasted liar!"

~ Burning Spear

Mr. Spear is simply pointing out the fact that nobody can claim to discover a place where people have been living for uncounted thousands of years.

And given all the atrocities driven by him, it is a small consolation that
his name is not embedded in the continent's name.

[Masterlu]

[hobie1dog]

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