James Cook
1728–79
Naval officer, navigator, explorer, and marine surveyor. Commander of several voyages of discovery. Circumnavigated the world, 1768–71 and 1772–5. FRS 1776.
Sources
DSB
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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