Premise: Amerigo Vespucci ( [ ameˈriːɡo vesˈputtʃi ] ; March 9 , 1454February 22 , 1512 ) was an Italian explorer , financier , navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia 's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages , but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Old Worlders .
Hypothesis: Amerigo Vespucci was only German.
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