In 1549 Medina achieved appointment as honorary royal cosmographer. Mercator was welcomed by Duke Wilhelm who appointed him as court cosmographer. Aboard the ship was the Florentine cosmographer Amerigo Vespucci. He also held the position of Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. In 1674 Ogilby had been appointed "His Majesty's Cosmographer and Geographic Printer". It is named for Eduardo Carrasco Toro, Main Cosmographer of the Viceroyalty of Peru. He was not considered a cosmographer, a mathematician, or an astronomer. Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Bartolomeu Velho (died 1568) was a sixteenth-century Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer. Juan Vespucio (c. 1460after 1524) was an Italian-Spanish geographer, cartographer and cosmographer. Lopo Homem (16th century) was a Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer.