B

Bacon, Francis, 5

Banks, Sir Joseph, 18 , 40 , 54 nn79,84, 58 , 66 , 70 , 77

Barbados, 164 , 170 , 181

Baretti, Giuseppe, 150

Batavia, 10 , 11 , 16 -17, 44 nn15,16, 45 nn21,22, 46 n28, 70

Battle of Tenerife, 198

Battle of the Nile, 198 -199

Bayly, William, 180

Beaglehole, J. C., 39 , 54 n79, 73 , 74

Beauchesne, 22

Bering, Vitus, 2 , 19 , 46 n30, 53 n78, 73

Bering Strait, 53 n78, 74

Berlin, 100 , 101

Berthoud, Ferdinand, 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 114 , 123 n62, 126 n85

Bird, John, 181

Bligh, Captain William, 74

Board of Admiralty, 36 , 58 , 61 , 188 , 191

Board of Longitude, 39 , 53 n76, 90 , 102 , 168 , 170 , 171 , 174 , 180 , 183

Borda, Jean-Charles le chevalier de, 106 , 108 , 114

Boswell, James, 70 , 76 -77, 138 , 139 , 149 , 154 ;

Account of Corsica , 139 -141

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, 2 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 41 , 42 , 52 n68, 63 , 66 , 108 , 109 , 110 -111;

Voyage , 109 , 124 nn74,75, 150

Bouguer, Pierre, 97 , 107 , 112 , 120 n42;

Traité de navigation , 97 , 98 , 100 , 124 n72

Bounty mutiny, 74

Boussole (ship), 112 , 113 , 126 n86

Bouvet, De Lozier, 35 , 52 n70, 108 , 124 n75

Bouvet Island, 109

Bradley, James, 169 , 180

Brahe, Tycho, 87

Braudel, Fernand, 5 , 27 , 48 n48

Brazil, 25 , 48 n48

Breval, John Durant: Remarks on Several Parts of Europe , 138

Brisbane, Sir Thomas, 181

British East India Company, 19 , 28 , 30 , 48 n48

Brouwer, Hendrick, 20

Bruce, James: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile , 138 -139

Brydone, Patrick: Tour Through Sicily and Malta , 147 -149

Buccaneering, 21 , 58 , 61

Bunbury, William: Tour to Foreign Parts , 135

Bunyan, John: Pilgrim's Progress , 132

Burney, James, 74

Buttersworth, James, 196

Buttersworth, Thomas, 193 -196

Byron, John, 32 , 34 -35, 50 n63, 63 , 66 , 70 , 129