Dunya Baru
Gamal
"Dunya Baru" (Latin: Mundus novus) nya leka jaku ti dikena nerangka pengambis mayuh tanah di Hemisfer Barat, kelebih agi Amerika.[1] Leka jaku tu diberi kelala urung pun kurun ke-16, lebuh Jeman Penemu di Eropah, keterubah iya pengemata Itala Amerigo Vespucci, ke ngeluarka pamplet Mundus novus, ti mantaika asil pemata iya ba barat Tasik Luar Atlantik (udah nya diberi nama Amerika ari nama Amerigo).[2]
Penemu tu ngerembaika ufuk geografi bala pakar geografi Eropah ke dulu agi, ke udah ngumbai dunya semina nyengkaum Afrika, Asia, enggau Eropah, ti disengkaum baruh leka jaku "Dunya Lama".[3]
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[edit | edit bunsu]- ↑ "America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language (ISBN 0-19-214183-X). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 33: "[16c: from the feminine of Americus, the Latinized first name of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). The name America first appeared on a map in 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, referring to the area now called Brazil]. Since the 16th century, the term "New World" has been used to describe the Western Hemisphere, often referred to as the Americas. Since the 18th century, it has come to represent the United States, which was initially colonial British America until it established independence following the American Revolutionary War. The second sense is now primary in English: ... However, the term is open to uncertainties: ..."
- ↑ Mundus Novus: Letter to Lorenzo Pietro Di Medici, by Amerigo Vespucci; translation by George Tyler Northrup, Princeton University Press; 1916.
- ↑ M.H.Davidson (1997) Columbus Then and Now, a life re-examined. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, p. 417)