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title	:	Science and Exploration in the Pacific : European Voyages to the Southern Oceans in the Eighteenth Century
author	:	Lincoln, Margarette.
publisher	:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin	:	0851157211
print isbn13	:	9780851157214
ebook isbn13	:	9780585182230
language	:	English
subject	Cook, James,--1728-1779, Cook, James,--1728-1779, Endeavour (Ship) , Endeavour (Ship) , Voyages around the world, Oceania--Discovery and exploration.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	G420.C65S35 1998eb
ddc	:	910.4/5
subject	:	Cook, James,--1728-1779, Cook, James,--1728-1779, Endeavour (Ship) , Endeavour (Ship) , Voyages around the world, Oceania--Discovery and exploration.

Page i Science and Exploration in the Pacific

Page ii Image not availible. Endeavour II at Greenwich, 1997. National Maritime Museum (neg: 8635-B15)

Page iii Science and Exploration in the Pacific European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth century Edited by Margarette Lincoln THE BOYDELL PRESS in association with the National Maritime Museum

Page iv Contributors 1998 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1998. The Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum ISBN 0 85115 721 1 The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP 12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Science and exploration in the Pacific : European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth century / edited by Margarette Lincoln. p. cm. Essays, most adapted from papers given at a conference held 1997 by the National Maritime Museum in association with the Royal Society, to mark the voyage to and around Britain of Endeavour II, the Australian replica of Cook's ship Endeavour. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-85115-721-1 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Cook, James, 17281779. 2. Endeavour (Ship) 3. Voyages around the world. 4. Oceania Discovery and exploration. I. Lincoln, Margarette. II. National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) III. Endeavour II (Ship) G420.C65S35 1999 910.45dc21 98-29021 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Page v CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Foreword Richard Ormond Director of the National Maritime Museum ix Acknowledgements x Contributors xi Abbreviations xiv Introduction xv Part I. Strategy The Endeavour Voyage: A Coincidence of Motives Glyndwr Williams 3 Shaking off the Spanish Yoke: British Schemes to Revolutionise America, 17391807 Alan Frost 19 Joseph Banks and the Expansion of Empire John Gascoigne 39 Part II. Methodology and Selectivity From the South Seas to the Sun: The Astronomy of Cook's Voyages Wayne Orchiston 55 Malaspina and the Shrinking Spanish Lake Donald C. Cutter 73 The Politics and Pragmatics of Seaborne Plant Transportation, 17691805 Nigel Rigby 81 Part III. Perceptions Lord Sandwich's Collection of Polynesian Artefacts Peter Gathercole 103 Cook and Tupaia, a Tale of Cartographic Mconnaissance? David Turnbull 117

Page vi Note on the Drawings by an Unknown Artist from the Voyage of HMS Endeavour Harold B. Carter 133 The Point Venus 'Scene' Neil Rennie 135 Part IV. Transformations

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