Person1728 – 1779
James Cook
Also called: Captain Cook
British navigator who made three voyages across the Pacific, charting New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and was killed in Hawaii
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Between 1768 and 1779 the British navigator James Cook made three voyages across the Pacific, charting New Zealand and the east coast of Australia and reaching Hawaii.
Themes this person appears in
- Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution