ae 
Notes on the earliest discoveries in America. 815 
1502 there was written an account of his expedition, which was 
us. The 
soon after printed, under the title of Mundus Nov 
own to geographers. In May, 1507, 
the four voyages of Vespucci were published for the first time 
together, in Latin, at St. Dié, in France, as before stated, as an 
appendage to a little work on cosmography, a science which 
now began to assume new and startling importance. 
_ On the third of November, the same year, there was pub- 
lished in Italjan, at Vicenza, a most important collection_of 
tereal, &e. 
and German. 
pi Beneventanus says “Joannes —_ Ruisch Germanus ie sorta oe 
Judicio peritissimus, ac in pingendo orbe diligentissmus cujus a 
lucubratiuncula fat inl dixit, se navigasse ab Albionis australi parte; et tamdiu 
Am. Jour. Sc1.—Szconp Series, Vou. XLVILI, No. 144.—Nov., 1869. 
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