Почему Америку не назвали в честь Колумба?
Around 1502, Vespucci demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts, as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but constituted an entirely separate and unexplored land mass, colloquially referred to as the New World. It came to be termed "the Americas", a name derived from "Americus", the Latin version of Vespucci's first name.
Vespucci demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts, as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages