Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific
In: The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 Ser v.6
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE - VISIONS OF THE PACIFIC -- 1 'South Sea' to 'Pacific Ocean' -- 2 Mercator's Southern Continent: Its Origins, Influence and Gradual Demise -- 3 Shared Vision: Herman Moll and His Circle and the Great South Sea -- PART TWO - THE IMPERIAL SCIENCES OF EXPLORATION -- 4 Finding the Way Home: Spanish Exploration of the Round-Trip Route across the Pacific Ocean -- 5 Eighteenth Century Science and the Voyages of Discovery -- 6 A Royal Society Appointment with Venus in 1769: The Voyage of Cook and Banks in the Endeavour in 1768-71 and its Botanical Results -- 7 The Ship as a Scientific Instrument in the Eighteenth Century -- 8 Banks, Bligh and Breadfruit -- 9 Scientific Books and Instruments for an Eighteenth-Century Voyage around the World: Antonio Pineda and the Malaspina Expedition -- 10 Of Fish and Men: Spanish Marine Science During the Late Eighteenth Century -- 11 The Search for a Sea Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific via North America's Coast: On the History of a Scientific Competition -- PART THREE - CULTURAL CONTACT, COMPARISON AND CLASSIFICATION -- 12 (En)-Countering Knowledge Traditions: The Story of Cook and Tupaia -- 13 'Le Président des Terres Australes': Charles de Brosses and the French Enlightenment Beginnings of Oceanic Anthropology -- 14 Seamen and Philosophers in the South Seas in the Age of Captain Cook -- 15 Melanesians and Polynesians: Ethnic Typifications Inside and Outside Anthropology -- 16 The 'Oriental Renaissance' in the Pacific: Orientalism, Language and Ethnogenesis in the British Pacific -- 17 Minute Particulars and the Representation of South Pacific Discovery -- Index