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Author's note: In 1497-8, Amerigo Vespucci - the manager of the wealthy Medici family's operations in Seville - helped to outfit Columbus's third voyage to 'the Indies'. His discontent with the life of a merchant was later to lead to his traveling to the New World on at least two different voyages. After his expedition to Brazil in 1501-2, he was the first to state with any certainty that the discovered lands were in fact a new continent and not Asia. The continent was named after him in 1507 by Martin Waldeemuller, a geographer from Lorrain. Vespucci later became chief map-maker for the Commercial House for the West Indies.
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