Part 1. Visions of the Pacific. 'South Sea' to 'Pacific Ocean' / O.H.K. Spate -- Mercator's southern continent : its origins, influence and gradual demise / W.A.R. Richardson -- Shared vision : Herman Moll and his circle and the Great South Sea / Dennis Reinhartz -- Part 2. The imperial sciences of exploration. Finding the way home : Spanish exploration of the round-trip route across the Pacific Ocean / Harry Kelsey -- Eighteenth century science and the voyages of discovery / J.C. Beaglehole -- A Royal Society appointment with Venus in 1769 : the voyage of Cook and Banks in the Endeavour in 1768-71 and its botanical results / William T. Stearn -- The ship as a scientific instrument in the eighteenth century / Richard Sorrenson -- Banks, Bligh and breadfruit / David MacKay -- Scientific books and instruments for an eighteenth-century voyage around the world : Antonio Pineda and the Malaspina expedition / Barbara G. Beddall -- Of fish and men : Spanish marine science during the lated eighteenth century / Iris H. Wilson Engstrand -- 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 / Alexei V. Postnikov -- Part 3. Cultural contact, comparison and classification. (En)countering knowledge traditions : the story of Cook and Tupaia / David Turnbull -- 'Le PreĢsident des Terres Australes': Charles de Brosses and the French enlightenment beginnings of oceanic anthropology / Tom Ryan -- Seamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain Cook / Glyndwr Williams -- Melanesians and Polynesians : ethnic typifications inside and outside anthropology / Nicholas Thomas -- The 'oriental renaissance' in the Pacific : orientalism, language and ethnogenesis in the British Pacific / Tony Ballantyne -- Minute particulars and the representation of South Pacific discovery / Jonathan Lamb.
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