Margarette Lincoln (ed.)

Science and exploration : European voyages to the Southern oceans in the 18th century

Boydell press, in association with the National maritime museum

Woodbridge, 1998
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Science and exploration : European voyages to the Southern oceans in the 18th century / ed. by Margarette Lincoln. - Woodbridge : Boydell press in association with the National maritime museum, 1998. - XIX-228 p. : ill., facsims., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN 0-85115-7211-1

En 1997, une réplique de l'Endeavour (navire de la première expédition du capitaine Cook) s'est rendue d'Australie en Grande-Bretagne. A cette occasion, le National Maritime Museum et la Royal Society ont organisé un important colloque sur les différents aspects des grandes expéditions maritimes de découverte au XVIIIe siècle.

Margarette Lincoln présente les travaux de ce colloque qui renouvellent l'évaluation de l'apport des grandes découvertes dans les Mers du Sud au XVIIIe siècle — risque nautique, résultat scientifique, rencontre (ou choc ?) entre cultures.

NOTE DE L'ÉDITEUR : The exploration of the Pacific in the eighteenth century by western Europeans has an enduring fascination for both specialists and a wider public. Within this field, Cook's voyages have a particular appeal : they include exciting elements of danger, scientific investigation, encounters between different cultures.

The essays in this volume take as their point of departure Cook's first voyage in the Endeavour (1768-71) ; they re-evaluate its political and social context, look at the expectations and outcomes of the event, and focus on the scientific and cultural issues emerging from this and subsequent Pacific voyages.
SOMMAIRE Foreword by Richard Ormond, Director of the National Maritime Museum

Introduction

Part I. Strategy
  • Glyndwr Williams, The Endeavour Voyage: A Coincidence of Motives
  • Alan Frost, Shaking off the Spanish Yoke: British Schemes to Revolutionise America, 1739-1807
  • John Gascoigne, Joseph Banks and the Expansion of Empire

Part II. Methodology and Selectivity
  • Wayne Orchiston, From the South Seas to the Sun: The Astronomy of Cook's Voyages
  • Donald C. Cutter, Malaspina and the Shrinking Spanish Lake
  • Nigel Rigby, The Politics and Pragmatics of Seaborne Plant Transportation 1769-1805

Part III. Perceptions
  • Peter Gathercole, Lord Sandwich's Collection of Polynesian Artefacts
  • David Turnbull, Cook and Tupaia, a Tale of Cartographic Meconnaissance ?
  • Harold B. Carter, Note on the Drawings by an Unknown Artist from the Voyage of HMS Endeavour
  • Neil Rennie, The Point Venus “ Scene ”

Part IV. Transformations
  • Rod Edmond, Translating Cultures: William Ellis and Missionary Writing
  • Markman Ellis, Tails of Wonder: Constructions of the Kangaroo in Late Eighteenth-Century Scientific Discourse
  • Neil Hegarty, Unruly Subjects: Sexuality, Science and Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Pacific Exploration
  • Jackie Huggins, Cook and the New Anthropology
COMPLÉMENT BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
  • Margarette Lincoln, « Representing the Navy: British Sea Power 1750–1815 », Aldershot : Ashgate, National maritime museum, 2002
  • David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby (ed.), « Maritime empires : British imperial maritime trade in the nineteenth century », Woodbridge : Boydell press in association with the National maritime museum, 2004
  • Margarette Lincoln, « Naval wives and mistresses, 1745–1815 », London : National maritime museum, 2007, 2011
  • Margarette Lincoln, « British pirates and society, 1680-1730 », Farnham : Ashgate, 2014 ; London : Routledge, 2016
  • Margarette Lincoln, « Trading in war : London's maritime world in the age of Cook and Nelson », New Haven : Yale university press, 2018

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