Captain Cook, navigator and scientist : Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969.
- Description:
- Man and occasion met when the Royal Society chose Captain James Cook to command Endeavour on the expedition to Tahiti in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus, a phenomenon of outstanding scientific importance. Its importance was matched by the work of Cook and his fellow-scientists on this and subsequent voyages. Cook was a formidable man: powerful, meticulously painstaking, accurate, and patient. He was the supreme navigator of the eighteenth century, and his observations have been as valuable as they were diverse: from control of scurvy to...
- Display date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Oceania
- Format:
- book
- Collections:
- Australian National University Library
- Contributors:
- Badger, G. M.
- Publisher:
- Australian National University Press
- Content partner:
- Australian National University Library
- Availability:
- Online
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