Author: Warren Scriver WoosterPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Scientific Exploration of the South Pacific
Author: Warren Scriver WoosterPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Exploration of the Pacific
Author: J. C. BeagleholePublisher:
ISBN: 9780804703116
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
Author: Tony BallantynePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351901818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the region, and how the exploration of the Pacific in turn shaped emergent scientific disciplines and their claims to authority within Europe. Drawing on a range of disciplines (from the history of science to geography, imperial history to literary criticism), this volume examines the place of science in cross-cultural encounters, the history of cartography in Oceania, shifting understandings of race and cultural difference in the Pacific, and the place of ships, books and instruments in the culture of science. It reveals the exchanges and networks that connected British, French, Spanish and Russian scientific traditions, even in the midst of imperial competition, and the ways in which findings in diverse fields, from cartography to zoology, botany to anthropology, were disseminated and crafted into an increasingly coherent image of the Pacific, its resources, peoples, and histories. This is a significant body of scholarship that offers many important insights for anthropologists and geographers, as well as for historians of science and European imperialism.
Pacific Exploration
Author: Nigel RigbyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472957741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of Australia and many Pacific islands – and tested all Cook's skills as a navigator, seaman and leader. His voyages were among the first to take civilian scientists, notably Sir Joseph Banks, and they revealed to European eyes the mysterious and exotic lands, peoples, flora and fauna of the Pacific, never before seen. But while Cook understandably dominates the story of 18th-century Pacific exploration, the achievements of those who followed him on many voyages of science and exploration into the Pacific have been neglected and deprived of the greater attention they deserve. Correcting this imbalance, Pacific Exploration explores the European voyages that continued Cook's work not only of charting but also starting to exploit and control the Pacific. These voyages, by William Bligh, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, Malaspina, Lapérouse and Arthur Phillip, span a period that saw Britain becoming the world's leading maritime power, a situation well in place by the time that Charles Darwin's voyage in Fitzroy's Beagle laid the basis of even greater understanding of the development of life on earth. Recounting and illustrating these achievements and legacies using fascinating text and beautiful illustrations and artworks from the period, this book explores topics of scientific discovery, engagement with indigenous peoples, the use of shipboard artists and scientists, the growing professionalism of the hydrographic service, the vessels used and the colonial, commercial and imperial contexts of the voyages.
Book catalog of the Library and Information Services Division
Author: Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
NBS Special Publication
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. National Bureau of StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
Author: Facts On File, IncorporatedPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438124759
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
-- Biographies of some of the most important explorers the world has known -- Ideal for research or class use -- Written in accessible, easily understood language -- Complements school curriculum Cook earned his reputation as a great navigator for his three voyages exploring the Pacific Ocean.
Problems of the Pacific
Author: Frank FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Author: