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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2010 Mar 16, 08:34 -0700
Patrick, you wrote:
" Nevil Maskelyne has been someone I have wanted to find out more about "
In addition to the Howse biography, you should go have a look at google books and, to a lesser extent, archive.org. There are extensive historical materials available online that were practically non-existent just five years ago. There are actual articles and letters written by Maskelyne himself. Even more so for Cook and also Joseph Banks.
Hey, speaking of Banks, has anyone else read Patrick O'Brian's biography of Joseph Banks? It's nothing stellar but certainly very enjoyable, and of course Banks was an incredibly important figure in British science and history in that period.
-FER
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