...Vespucius was in correspondence with a learned German school-master named Waldseemuller (Wood-lake-miller), who was a correspondent of the Academy of Cosmography at Strasburg, founded by the Duke of Lorraine . Waldseemuller suggested to the members of that institution, under whose auspices the narrative of Vespucius had been published, the name of America for the Western Continent, in compliment to tie...