Robert Boyle and his essay General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or Small codifying the scientific literature of travel
Robert Boyle and his essay General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or Small codifying the scientific literature of travel
The second expedition of Captain Cook (1772-1775), who sailed the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Antarctic Sea, narrated by Georg Forster
How to make a medieval manuscript
The two globes were made in 1683 by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli and were offered to Louis XIV by Cardinal d’Estré
The first modern atlas: Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theatre of the World) by Abraham Ortelius
Historian Georges Duby’s lecture on Chartres Cathedral and its influence on material, political, economic and cultural conditions in the 13th century
Terrestrial globes by Willem Janszoon, updated to the geographical discoveries of the 17th century
Sir David Attenborough talks about Cook’s nautical charts and Joseph Banks’ collection of plants and animals
The Atlas Maior by Willem Janszoon and Joan Blaeu, updated to the geographical discoveries of the 17th century
The new Larcum Kendall K1 marine chronometer to be tested on Cook’s second voyage