Voyages of Discovery is the story of the last great age of European sea exploration, when state-supported expeditions driven by both scientific and political motives set out to map the remaining unkno
Alexander (formerly a professor of history, philosophy, and history of science at Stanford U. and U. of California at Los Angeles) contends that the mathematical pioneers of the study of infinitesimal
For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southla