Science, Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific Book

1	'South Sea' to 'Pacific Ocean'	3
2	Mercator's southern continent : its origins, influence and gradual demise	11
3	Shared vision : Herman Moll and his circle and the Great South Sea	43
4	Finding the way home : Spanish exploration of the round-trip route across the Pacific Ocean	55
5	Eighteenth century science and the voyages of discovery	75
6	A Royal Society appointment with Venus in 1769 : the voyage of Cook and Banks in the Endeavour in 1768-71 and its botanical results	93
7	The ship as a scientific instrument in the eighteenth century	123
8	Banks, Bligh and breadfruit	139
9	Scientific books and instruments for an eighteenth-century voyage around the world : Antonio Pineda and the Malaspina expedition	157
10	Of fish and men : Spanish marine science during the late eighteenth century	171
11	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	199
12	(En)-countering knowledge traditions : the story of Cook and Tupaia	225
13	'Le President des Terres Australes' : Charles de Brosses and the French enlightenment beginnings of oceanic anthropology	247
14	Seamen and philosophers in the South Seas in the age of Captain Cook	277
15	Melanesians and Polynesians : ethnic typifications inside and outside anthropology	297
16	The 'Oriental Renaissance' in the Pacific : Orientalism, language and ethnogenesis in the British Pacific	321
17	Minute particulars and the representation of South Pacific discovery	345