Vicente Yanez Pinzon (1463-1514)
Potugese navigator Vicente Yanez Pinzon was the first to report observations
of the Coalsack Dark Nebula in 1499, before
Amerigo Vespucci and
Peter Martyr gave their descriptions in 1503-4 and
between 1511 and 1521, respectively.
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