Honors include the naming of America for him, even during his lifetime, in 1507
by cartographer Martin Waldseemüller and humanist Matthias Ringmann.
It is Waldsemüller's map, drawn 1507 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, in
Lorraine, where the name "America" was first assigned to the double continent,
or what was known of it at that time.
The astronomical community has named asteroid (916) America for him and the
continet discovered by him. It had been discovered by G.N. Neujmin at Simeis
on August 7, 1915.
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