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Sir Joseph Banks
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Noun1.Sir Joseph Banks - English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)Sir Joseph Banks - English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)


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Mr Wood's collection also boasts an oil painting of Northumberland's Farne Islands with Bamburgh Castle in the distance, by Thomas Joseph Banks.
He concentrates on three men: Joseph Banks (botanist and explorer).
Included are chapters on botanist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), astronomers William Hershel (1738-1822) and his sister Caroline (1750-1848), 18th-century balloonists, chemist Humphry Davy (1778-1829), and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and the soul.
 
 
 
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