Add to ORKGHermann Diedrich Sporing, a former surgeon, voyaged with Captain James Cook on the HMS Endeavour voyage of 1768-1771 to the South Pacific. Employed by Joseph Banks as a naturalist, secretary and artist, Mr. Sporing was one of the four medical "gentlemen of the faculty" who sailed with Cook. Hermann Sporing was a Swede from Firmish-speaking Turku (Abo in Swedish). Recent translation of Finnish documents has provided extra details of his life; and have enabled a perspective of his contributions to Cook's voyage to be drawn
During the course of 1770 Captain James Cook, botanist/entrepreneur Joseph Banks, and the crew of He...
Previously attributed to Johann Zoffany, 1733-1810; a plaque on reverse of frame gives the date 1771...
Miertsching learned the Eskimo language while serving at a Moravian mission at the Labrador station ...
Volume 3 of the Yearbook is devoted to matters relating to the voyages of Captain James Cook (1728-7...
Man and occasion met when the Royal Society chose Captain James Cook to command Endeavour on the exp...
Sylvie Lacroix : Sir Joseph Banks and Scientific expeditions. Joseph Banks, President of the Royal ...
Sylvie Lacroix : Sir Joseph Banks and Scientific expeditions. Joseph Banks, President of the Royal ...
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir Joseph Banks P.R.S. 1743-1820. Cook’s companion on the first v...
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798. Naturalist, with his son on ...
Banks, Sir Joseph W.T. Stearn, A Royal Society appointment with Venus in 1769: The voyage of Cook an...
On August 26, 1768, the British Lieutenant James Cook, commanding the ship HMS Endeavour, sailed fro...
The widespread effect in Europe of James Cook's voyages of discovery can be seen in the language of ...
Two hundred years ago Captain James Cook revealed to Europe the world of the Pacific. In three great...
Manuscript reference no.: MS 1.; Inscription: "Remarkable occurrences on board His Majesty's Bark En...
Conference paper for the 3rd Annual Pacific Islands Studies Conference, "Captain Cook and the Pacifi...
During the course of 1770 Captain James Cook, botanist/entrepreneur Joseph Banks, and the crew of He...
Previously attributed to Johann Zoffany, 1733-1810; a plaque on reverse of frame gives the date 1771...
Miertsching learned the Eskimo language while serving at a Moravian mission at the Labrador station ...
Volume 3 of the Yearbook is devoted to matters relating to the voyages of Captain James Cook (1728-7...
Man and occasion met when the Royal Society chose Captain James Cook to command Endeavour on the exp...
Sylvie Lacroix : Sir Joseph Banks and Scientific expeditions. Joseph Banks, President of the Royal ...
Sylvie Lacroix : Sir Joseph Banks and Scientific expeditions. Joseph Banks, President of the Royal ...
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir Joseph Banks P.R.S. 1743-1820. Cook’s companion on the first v...
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798. Naturalist, with his son on ...
Banks, Sir Joseph W.T. Stearn, A Royal Society appointment with Venus in 1769: The voyage of Cook an...
On August 26, 1768, the British Lieutenant James Cook, commanding the ship HMS Endeavour, sailed fro...
The widespread effect in Europe of James Cook's voyages of discovery can be seen in the language of ...
Two hundred years ago Captain James Cook revealed to Europe the world of the Pacific. In three great...
Manuscript reference no.: MS 1.; Inscription: "Remarkable occurrences on board His Majesty's Bark En...
Conference paper for the 3rd Annual Pacific Islands Studies Conference, "Captain Cook and the Pacifi...
During the course of 1770 Captain James Cook, botanist/entrepreneur Joseph Banks, and the crew of He...
Previously attributed to Johann Zoffany, 1733-1810; a plaque on reverse of frame gives the date 1771...
Miertsching learned the Eskimo language while serving at a Moravian mission at the Labrador station ...