John Gascoigne
Author of Captain Cook: Voyager Between Two Worlds
About the Author
John Gascoigne is Associate Professor, School of History, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Works by John Gascoigne
Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution (1998) 17 copies
Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment: Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (1989) 12 copies, 1 review
Science and the State: From the Scientific Revolution to World War II (New Approaches to the History of Science and Medicine) (2019) 9 copies
Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment (Variorum Collected Studies Series) (2010) 5 copies
Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity: A Secular State? (Routledge Studies in Modern History) (2019) — Author — 3 copies
Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600–1800 (Variorum Collected Studies) (1999) 2 copies
Nuggets: Golden and Human 1 copy
Associated Works
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Science (2003) — Contributor — 77 copies
Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771 (2016) — Author; Contributor — 28 copies
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This is a clearly written biography that sets forth not only the events of Captain Cook's life, but also the context in which he lived it. It is not a chatty biography, and it does not contain details that would give a reader a sense of Cook's private thoughts or inner life. This is not a weakness, just an observation.
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