Contents

• Home
• Trade
• Navigation
• Science
• Empire
• Timeline
• Contents

Contents

Trade

• Trade routes world map
• Map of Asia from Sebastian Munster's atlas, 1540
• The Vergulde Draeck wreck, 1656
• Tea and china
  • The Binh Thuan wreck
  • The Ca Mau wreck
  • The Geldermalsen wreck
  • Captain Cook's teacup
  • What is porcelain?

Navigation

• Solving the longitude puzzle
• A clear vision
  • How does an achromatic lense work?
  • The lunar distance method
  • John Gore in the Pacific
• A 'never failing guide'
  • Harrison's four chronometers
  • 1825 Barraud chronometer
  • Kenneth Slessor poem
• All that he surveys
  • Cook charts the Pacific
  • Cook in Canada
• Star gazing

Science

• Celebrity portraits
  • Joseph Banks
  • Daniel Solander
  • Carl Linnaeus
  • Johann Reinhold Forster
  • Captain James Cook
  • Modelling the medallions
  • What is Jasperware?
• Banks' Florilegium
  • Printing Banks' Florilegium
  • The florilegium and 18th century botanical art
  • From plant to print
    • Dillenia alata: Plate 1
    • Capparis lucida: Plate 6
    • Cochlospermum gillivraei: Plate 12
    • Hibiscus meraukensis: Plate 23
    • Crotalaria verrucosa: Plate 55
    • Ceriops tagal: Plate 102
    • Epacris longiflora: Plate 197
    • Petalostigma banksii: Plate 301
    • Dendrobium discolor: Plate 314
• Cook and the Royal Society of London

 Empire

• Endeavour runs aground
  • Dr John Hawkesworth's account
  • Joseph Banks's account
  • Captain James Cook's account
  • Sydney Parkinson's account
• Captain James Cook, the hero
  • Depictions of Captain James Cook
• Voyaging with a needle
  • Eastern Hemisphere map
  • Western Hemisphere map

Timeline