banking services chronicle latest edition

 banking services chronicle latest edition

Banking services chronicle latest edition Useful article which is useful for the students to know more about The Americas are usually accepted as having been named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann Vespucci who explored South America between 1497 and 1502 was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies but a different landmass previously unknown by Europeans. In 1507 Waldseemüller produced a world map in which he placed the word America on the continent of South America in the middle of what is today Brazil. He explained the rationale for the name in the accompanying book CosmographiesIntroduction ab Americo inventorequasi Americi terram sive Americam from Americus the discovereras if it were the land of Americus thus America.For Waldseemüller no one should object to the naming of the land after its discoverer. He used the Latinized version of Vespucci name Americus Vesuvius but in its feminine form America following the examples of Europa Asia and Africa. Later other mapmakers extended the name America to the northern continent. In 1538 Gerard Mercator used America on his map of the world for all the Western Hemisphereto know more subscribe on Banking service chronicle.