James Cook

Also known as Captain James Cook, Captain Cook, James Cooke, Cook, James, James Marton Cook

British explorer, cartographer and naval officer (1728–1779)

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James Cook was a male person from the United States. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection and has been referenced by 3,308 other encyclopedia articles. His works include *Voyages of Captain James Cook*, *Remarks on the law of principal and factor*, *Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World - Volume I*, *Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World - Volume II*, and *Journals of Captain Cook*.

He was born in 1728 and died in 1779. A quote attributed to him states, "If I have failed in discovering a Continent it is because it does not exist." He is associated with Commons categories and galleries under the name James Cook.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works: 95

Top works

Voyages of Captain James Cook
Remarks on the law of principal and factor
Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World - Volume I
Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World - Volume II
Journals of Captain Cook

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1931-01-22
Active to: 1964-12-11

black gospelclassic soulearly r&bgospelpop soulr&b

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,575
Total plays: 15,719

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,040x
Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,291x
Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,856x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,716x

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Quotes

“I whose ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go ...”
“If I have failed in discovering a Continent it is because it does not exist.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and led the first recorded visit by Europeans to the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager before enlisting in the Royal Navy in 1755. He first saw combat during the Seven Years' War, when he fought in the Siege of Louisbourg. Later in the war he surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the Siege of Quebec. In the 1760s he mapped the coastline of Newfoundland and made important astronomical observations which brought him to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society. This acclaim came at a pivotal moment in British overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of his three voyages.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “James Cook” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.