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The first modern individual was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian sailor who took part in several expeditions to America in the early 16th century. The texts attributed to Amerigo argue that the new lands discovered by Columbus were not islands in the waters off the coast of East Asia, but an entire continent unknown to the Holy Scriptures, classical geographers, and contemporary Europeans.

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A world map from 1459, belonging to the Venetian Fra Mauro. Europe is on the left, the Mediterranean and Africa below, and Asia on the right. The map is full of detail, even when illustrating areas of the world that were completely unknown to Europeans such as southern Africa or the Americas.

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Salviati's map is almost empty. The eye follows the American coast to the south, until it ends in a void. What lies beyond this point? The map gives no answers. It invites the observer to go to sea and discover it. It is the spitting image of the founding event of the scientific revolution. From then on, scholars in almost every field of knowledge began to admit that their theories were not perfect and that there were important things they did not know. Ignorance is recognized and accepted, which can only be countered with scientific research.