Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... We may rightly call a New World... A continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals other than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

Amerigo Vespucci

On the discovery of America.

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Topic

The new world Discovery of America

Author

Amerigo Vespucci

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

1503 1500s 16th century

Era

Age of Exploration

Occupation

Explorer

From

Italy Europe

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Original Citation

Vespucci, Amerigo. Letter to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici. c. Mar. 1503.

Current Citation

Vespucci, Amerigo. "From Mundus Novus (Letter on His Third Voyage to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici, 1503)." Early American Writing, edited by Giles Gunn. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

René Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy

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Questioning one's beliefs

Author

René Descartes
Source
Meditations on First Philosophy
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
1641 1640s 17th century
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Original Citation

Descartes, René. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur [Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated]. Paris, 1641, first meditation.

Current Citation

Descarte, René. "Meditations on First Philosophy." Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing, 1999, first meditation.