Download or read book A Chronological History of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas 1579 1620 written by James Burney and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South sea or Pacific Ocean written by James Burney and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean written by James Burney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1806 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain James Burney (1750–1821), the son of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney and brother of the novelist Fanny Burney, was a well-travelled sailor, best known for this monumental compilation of voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean. After joining the navy in 1764, he sailed on Cook's second voyage between 1772 and 1774, and was also present on the ill-fated third voyage. He retired from the navy in 1784 and turned to writing works on exploration. These volumes, published between 1803 and 1817, and regarded as the standard work on the subject for much of the nineteenth century, contain collected accounts of European voyages of discovery in the Pacific Ocean between 1492 and 1764. Burney provides summaries of Spanish, Dutch and English accounts, which include descriptions of voyages to China, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia. These volumes also encompass voyages to California and the Western coast of America, Mexico, Peru, Chile and other Central and South American destinations -- including islands in the vicinity of these locations, such as the Galapagos archipelago. While the main focus is on exploration in the Pacific some content includes Atlantic content covering the Falkland Islands, Patagonia and the West Indies.
Download or read book A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World written by John Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shores of Knowledge New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination written by Joyce Appleby and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uncommonly good…makes a compelling case that…intellectual curiosity not only changed Europe, but launched modernity." —Cleveland Plain Dealer When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World. Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World’s people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer suppress the mantra “Dare to know!” Noblemen began collecting cabinets of curiosities; soon others went from collecting to examining natural objects with fresh eyes. Observation led to experiments; competing conclusions triggered debates. The foundations for the natural sciences were laid as questions became more multifaceted and answers became more complex. Carl Linneaus developed a classification system and sent students around the globe looking for specimens. Museums, botanical gardens, and philosophical societies turned their attention to nature. National governments undertook explorations of the Pacific. Eminent historian Joyce Appleby vividly recounts the explorers’ triumphs and mishaps, including Magellan’s violent death in the Philippines; the miserable trek of the "new Argonauts" across the Andes on their mission to determine the true shape of the earth; and how two brilliant scientists, Alexander Humboldt and Charles Darwin, traveled to the Americas for evidence to confirm their hypotheses about the earth and its inhabitants. Drawing on detailed eyewitness accounts, Appleby also tells of the turmoil created in the all societies touched by the explorations. This sweeping, global story imbues the Age of Discovery with fresh meaning, elegantly charting its stimulation of the natural sciences, which ultimately propelled Western Europe toward modernity.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute 1886 written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Empire Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the London Library By John George Cochrane The second edition greatly enlarged written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
