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The Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci developed a method of calculating longitude, employed by Spain Vespucci argued that the new world was a separate continent not connected to Asia thus adding a forth to the known three.

In modern terms Vespucci's difficulties are that Columbus discovered the New World prior to Vespucci's voyages.

I take it you know America was named after him?

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