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Pravda would make as much sense as Eaton if it concluded that Americans were wicked because their name was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian and, therefore, a Fascist beast. Not even Pravda would try that. Eaton's article drew an angry and effective answer from Alexander Kerensky, who has been fighting the Soviet Government since the Bolsheviks kicked him out of the presidency of Russia 30 years ago. Wrote Kerensky in last week's New Leader...
...analysis of the news, CBS London then transfers its listeners to CBS Barcelona and Commentator Amerigo Vespucci. Comments Vespucci: "It is impossible to conceive the full significance of the news we have just heard. The land which Admiral Colón has just reached is Cibango, or the legendary island of Japan. . . . Shortly many will follow [him]. I will be among them...
Lindbergh of the Caravels. A successful Florentine businessman, and a famed astronomer and geographer, Vespucci did not become a sailor until he was 45. Then he proved himself a Lindbergh of the caravels, sailing to his destinations with cool calculations and almost without excitement. Where Columbus was visionary, gifted, brilliant and brave, Vespucci was industrious, modest, thorough. Readers of this scholarly new biography may feel that it was one of history's tragedies that Columbus and Vespucci did not sail together. Columbus was the great discoverer, but Vespucci sighted more new territory. He traversed 3,000 miles...
...Amerigo Vespucci calculated the circumference of the earth at the equator at 24,852 miles. Modern science has found it to be 24,902. (Columbus' estimate was 6,125 miles short.) On his voyages Amerigo remained awake, night after sleepless night, to study the stars and try to reason out what changes the New World's discovery forced in the science of navigation. "In the endeavor to ascertain longitude I have lost much sleep," said Amerigo, "and have shortened my life ten years, but I hold it well worth the cost. . . ." Columbus, the intuitive, estimated the speed...
...Vespucci anchored in a Brazilian harbor on Aug. 17, 1499, after a fight with natives that left his men "grievously wounded and weary." He remained in harbor until Sept. 5, 1499. There, by a brilliant calculation based on the distance between the moon and Mars ("lunar distance"), he evolved a way of learning where he was and how far he had traveled...