Andrea Wulf

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 356 | Andrea Wulf on Enlightenment, Nature, Romanticism, and Modernity · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

So Cook is really quite well known for his kind of calm personality.

character and personality and he managed to kind of upset him once he asked him for a duel I mean he gets chucked out of the kind of great cabin a few times so he's not an easy man and I think after that Cook was just like I am not having that ever again this man is just unbearable

Well, I wish it would just be learning things.

You know, this is very much a kind of imperial endeavor.

So to set the scene, so there's the Seven Years' War in Europe, which is from 1756 to 1763.

And it's been described as the very first global conflict because it was fought in North America, Europe, India.

I mean, it's not just Europe.

It is really Europe and its colonial possessions.

And...

After the war, Britain really emerges as the kind of dominant global power.

France, not particularly pleased about that.

So France and England begin to look at the South Pacific as something, you know, maybe they can kind of find a few more colonies there.

So even...

expeditions such as Cook's first voyage, the Endeavour voyage, which had a very scientific purpose, which was to observe the transit of Venus.

And so Cook sails to Tahiti in, um,

in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus there, which is the first, really the first global international scientific collaborations where scientists all over the world observed this one moment when Venus crosses the kind of burning disc of the sun and they measured the distance

or they measure the entry and the exit time of Venus.

And through that, they can kind of measure the distance between Earth and sun.

But that only works if you have lots of scientists doing that together.

So that was the original reason for the Endeavour voyage.

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