HIST1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Carl Linnaeus, Pacific Science, Daniel Solander
Week 9 Lecture – HIST1601
Cooks Exploratio of the Paifi
Tutorials:
• No tute week 10/ 11 – back week 12
• Lectures as usual
Cooks Exploratio of the Paifi
• shared History – The Australian for free – 4 May 2017
• encounter with indigenous people
• plants and animals already known
• 2020 anniversary
• Discovery of terra nulis
• Joh Grees ideo o Cook
Enlightenment:
• Feeling empowered
• Rights to happiness and liberty
• Lead a life of their own
• Exported to China/ Japan
• Turning to Western thought and embracing Christianity
• Need to view in terms of global interaction
Impact:
• Role of Newton, Bacon, ect
• Republic of letters
• Worked towards greater knowledge
Royal Society of London:
• Take oodies ord for it
• What is being said is correct
• Question authority and truth statements
• Evidence
• Newton – President
• Gentlemen who could act independently
• Method on observation and experimentation
• Connection with God
• Cotrast ith Freh, light of Gods reatio
England:
• Various academies
• Learning by seeing
• Not only book learning on ancient scholars
• Empowered by technology
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• Role in enlightenment
• Scientific dimension for voyages
• Endeavour and Beagle
Early Voyages to Australia:
• Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese
• Chinese as well
• Little profit for Dutch in exploring
• Possible penial settlement
• Left little record of flora/fauna
Dampier:
• Book – attention to natural history
Natural History:
• Age of natural history
• 18th century England
• Grand homes with parks and gardens
• Run with and make it their own
18th Century:
• Ancient knowledge was lacking in natural history
• Turned to nature itself
• Organized by private people
Cook:
• Funded own voyage
• View in terms on enlightenment and imperialism
• World seemed to be smaller place
• Power spread
• Production of knowledge and global activity
• Famous – 1755 joined Royal Navy, war with France
• French/ Indian war
• Colonies in America
• Developed reputation for accurate maps
Pacific as Laboratory:
• Testing ground for enlightenment
• Southern land – continent
• Emphasis on Northern
Enlightenment and Exploration:
• Relatively peaceful
• Pursuit of knowledge to better yourself
• iilizig
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Document Summary
Tutorials: no tute week 10/ 11 back week 12. Cook(cid:859)s exploratio(cid:374) of the pa(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) shared history the australian for free 4 may 2017: encounter with indigenous people, plants and animals already known, 2020 anniversary, discovery of terra nulis. Lead a life of their own: feeling empowered, rights to happiness and liberty, exported to china/ japan, turning to western thought and embracing christianity, need to view in terms of global interaction. Impact: role of newton, bacon, ect, republic of letters, worked towards greater knowledge. Learning by seeing: not only book learning on ancient scholars, empowered by technology, role in enlightenment, scientific dimension for voyages, endeavour and beagle. Early voyages to australia: dutch, spanish and portuguese, chinese as well, possible penial settlement. Dampier: book attention to natural history. Natural history: age of natural history, 18th century england, grand homes with parks and gardens, run with and make it their own.
