Books by John Gascoigne

Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer. This work details what happened in Cook's voyages when he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.

Focusing on the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this title explores the movement's filiation and influence in various contexts. It emphasizes the evolutionary rather than the revolutionary character of the Enlightenment and its ability to change society by adaptation rather than demolition.

An illustration of the interconnections between science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period, focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. The book examines scientific research and the religious and political circumstances that favoured it.

Captain James Cook was a supreme navigator and explorer, but in many ways was also a representative of English attitudes in the eighteenth century. In his voyages, he came across peoples with hugely different systems of thought, belief and culture.

This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more generally.