Background To Discovery
  Preface
  Contributors

 expand sectionI  Seapower and Science:  The Motives for Pacific Exploration
  II  The Achievement of the English Voyages, 1650-1800
  III  The Men from Across La Manche: French Voyages, 1660-1790
 expand sectionIV  Literary Responses to the Eighteenth-Century Voyages
 collapse sectionV  Navigation and Astronomy in the Voyages
 •Navigation: The Early Years
 •The Longitude
 •The Longitude Act, 1714
 •The Invention of the Reflecting Quadrant
 •The Nautical Almanac
 •The Marine Chronometer
 •Explorers' Observations at Sea
 •Observations Ashore
 •Conclusion
  VI  The Sailor's Perspective: British Naval Topographic Artists

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