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Revision as of 17:29, 26 March 2008 by 204.82.184.89 (talk) (→Biography)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450 – c. 1499), known in English as John Cabot, was an Italian navigator and explorer commonly credited as the first early modern European to discover the North American mainland, in 1497, notwithstanding Leif Ericson's landing (circa 1000).
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External links
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- This article incorporates material from http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cabot.html . Copied with permission.
- Catholic Encyclopedia "John & Sebastian Cabot"
- Gibbons, Henry K. 1997. The Myth and Mystery of John Cabot: The Discoverer of North America. Marten Cat Publishers, Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland. Preface and first chapter
- Derek Croxton, The Cabot Dilemma: John Cabot's 1497 Voyage & the Limits of Historiography, 1990-1991
- The John Day Letter 1497-1498
- Home page of the Matthew replica with information about Cabot and the voyage.
- John Cabot memorial Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
- Script about Vespucci's and Caboto's voyages
- Preface and first chapter *Gibbons, Henry K. 1997. The Myth and Mystery of John Cabot: The Discoverer of North America. Marten Cat Publishers, Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland.