Captain Cook: Navigator and Scientist : Papers Presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 1 May 1969Geoffrey Malcolm Badger |
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Contributors | 1 |
Cook the Scientist G M Badger | 30 |
Cook the Navigator Sir Frederick White | 50 |
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Abbé accuracy Admiralty Altitude Anson's astronomical observations Aust Australia Banks and Solander Banks's Banksia serrata Barrier Reef Exped birds Board Botany Cape Cassini Chappe chart chronometers coast collected continents Cook's coral course determination discovery distribution drift Earth egress Endeavour Endeavour River expedition fathoms fauna Freshwat genus Green Greenwich Gt Barrier Reef Heron Island Ibid ingress James Cook Joseph Banks Journal land latitude lemons London longitude lunar distances Macquarie Island marine Maskelyne method miles Moon navigation Navy Nevil Maskelyne Newcomb northern Nothofagus Observatory observe the transit occur Ocean Pacific petroleum plants pollen published Queensland Royal Society sailed scientific scientists scurvy seamen second voyage sediments seeds shelf ship Sir Joseph solar parallax South America species station Strait survey Tahiti Tasmania telescope Tertiary third voyage tide Tierra del Fuego transit of Venus Zealand