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Cook, James (1728 - 1779)

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The following entries are from the History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography.

Books

  • Aughton, Peter, Resolution: the Story of Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discovery, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004, 189 pp. [ Details ]

  • Beasley, A. W., Fellowship of Three: the Lives and Association of John Hunter (1728-1793), The Surgeon; James Cook (1728-1820), The Navigator; and Joseph Banks (1743-1820), The Naturalist, Kangaroo Press, Kenthurst, 1993. [ Details ]

  • Britten, J., Illustrations of Australian Plants Collected in 1770 During Captain Cook's Voyage, London, 1905. [ Details ]

  • Dugard, Martin, Farther than Any Man: the Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook, Allen & Unwin/Pocket Books, Sydney/New York, 2001, 301 pp. [ Details ]

  • Eisler, William, The Furthest Shore: Images of Terra Australis from the Middle Ages to Captain Cook, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, 192 pp. [ Details ]

  • Hough, Richard, Captain James Cook a Biography, W. W. Norton, New York, 1995, 416 pp. [ Details ]

  • Joppien, Rudiger and Smith, Bernard, The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages: Volume 1 - the Voyage of the 'Edeavour' 1768-1771, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, 262 pp. [ Details ]

  • Joppien, Rudiger and Smith, Bernard, The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, Volume 2 - the Voyage of the 'Resolution' and 'Adventure' 1772-1775, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1985, 287 pp. [ Details ]

  • Richardson, Brian, Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2005, 256 pp. [ Details ]

Book Chapters

CD ROMs

  • Endeavour: Captain James Cook's Journal 1768-71, CD ROM, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, Canberra, 1998. [ Details ]

Edited Books

  • Thomas, Nicholas and Berghof, Oliver, assisted by Newell, Jennifer. (eds), a Voyage Round the World, by George FORSTER, edited by Nicholas Thomas and Oliver Berghof; assisted by Jennifer Newell, vol. 1 & 2 of 2, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2000, Vol 1., 523 pp., Vol. 2, 398 pp. [ Details ]

  • Williams, Glyndwr (ed.), Captain Cook: Explorations and Reassessments, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2004, 266 pp. [ Details ]

Journal Articles

  • 'Special Issue: Cook and Australian Fisheries', Australian Fisheries, vol. 29, no. 4, 1970, pp. 1-37. [ Details ]

  • Beaglehole, J. C., 'Death of Captain Cook [presidential address, ANZAAS Congress '64]', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 26, no. 10, 1964, pp. 297-304. [ Details ]

  • Chalmers, R. O., 'Captain Cook's Australian Landmarks', Australian Natural History, vol. 16, no. 8, 1970, pp. 241-288. [ Details ]

  • Disney, H. J. de S., 'Eastern Australian Birds Recorded on the 'Endeavour's" Voyage', Australian Natural History, vol. 16, no. 8, 1970, pp. 241-288. [ Details ]

  • Francis, J., 'James Cook and Robert Bakewell: Exploration and animal breeding in the eighteenth century', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, vol. 82, 1971, pp. v-xxvi. [ Details ]

  • Heighway, W., 'Cook's Compass: a note on its acquisition by the Mitchell Library', Navigation, vol. 2, no. 2, 1964, pp. 167-173. [ Details ]

  • Herdendorf, Charles E., 'Captain James Cook and the Transits of Mercury and Venus', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 21, no. 1-2, 1986, pp. 39-55. [ Details ]

  • Hilder, B., 'Navigation in the 1770's...the Navigation of Captain Cook', Navigation, vol. 3, no. 2, 1969, pp. 166-178. [ Details ]

  • Hoare, M. E., ''Cook the Discoverer': an Essay by Georg Forster, 1787', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 1, no. 4, 1969, pp. 7-16. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9690140007.htm) [ Details ]

  • Iredale, T. and Tronghton, E., 'The Actual Identity of Captain Cook's Kangaroo', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, vol. 87, 1962, pp. 177-184. [ Details ]

  • Lysaght, A., 'Captain Cook's Kangaroo', New Scientist, vol. 1, 1957. [ Details ]

  • Megaw, J. V. S., 'Captain Cook and the Australian Aborigine', Australian Natural History, vol. 16, no. 8, 1970, pp. 241-288. [ Details ]

  • Musgrave, Anthony, 'Insects of Captain Cook's Expedition', The Australian Museum Magazine, vol. 11, 1954, pp. 232-237; 265-239; 303-236; 322-234. [ Details ]

  • Orchiston, Wayne, 'Cook, Banks and the Gregorian Telescope in The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, Tongarewa', Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, vol. 18, no. 1999, 1999, pp. 4-9. [ Details ]

  • Pearson, C., 'Cook's Cannon Survives 200 Years Under the Sea', Proceedings and News of the Australian Oil and Colour Chemists' Association, vol. 7, no. 8, 1970, pp. 19, 21-12. [ Details ]

  • Percy, Carol E., 'To Study Nature Rather than Books: Capain James Cook as Naturalist, Observer and Literary Author', Pacific Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 1996, pp. 1-30. [ Details ]

  • Terry, Martin, 'Remembering Cook', National Library of Australia News, vol. XVI, no. 6, 2006, pp. 3-6. (Also available at http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2006/mar06/article1.html) [ Details ]

  • White, Sir Frederick, 'James Cook and the Measurement of Longitude', Navigation, vol. 3, no. 2, 1969, pp. 179-183. [ Details ]

  • Whitehead, P. J., 'Captain Cook's Role in Natural History', Australian Natural History, vol. 16, no. 8, 1970, pp. 241-288. [ Details ]

  • Whitley, G. P., ''Endeavour's' Naturalists in Australia', Australian Natural History, vol. 16, no. 8, 1970, pp. 241-288. [ Details ]

Talks

  • Brock, John F., Cook-Bligh-Flinders-King: the quadrilogy of master mariners, Talk, given in The Discovery Room, Australian Museum, Tuesday 6pm, Australian Science History Club, Sydney, 13 September 2005. [ Details ]

See also
  • Smith, Bernard, 'The Functions of the Art on Cook's Voyages, Part 3: History Painting: Cook's Artists at Full Stretch', Pacific Islands Monthly, vol. 56, no. 12, 1985, pp. 42-43. [ Details ]

  • Smith, Bernard, 'The Functions of the Art on Cook's Voyages, Part 2: Grappling with the Art of the First Encounter', Pacific Islands Monthly, vol. 56, no. 11, 1985, pp. 42-44. [ Details ]

  • Smith, Bernard, 'The Functions of the Art on Cook's Voyages, Part 1: Navigation, Art and Espionage', Pacific Islands Monthly, vol. 56, no. 10, 1985, pp. 42-43. [ Details ]


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