Joseph Banks
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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Sir Joseph Banks, as painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1773
A 1757 portrait of Banks with a botanical illustration, unknown artist, but attributed to Lemuel Francis Abbott or Johann Zoffany
Satire on Banks titled "The Botanic Macaroni", by Matthew Darly, 1772: A macaroni was a pejorative term used for a follower of exaggerated continental fashion in the 18th century.
Banks as painted by Benjamin West in 1773
European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of Enlightenment. Maritime expeditions in the Age of Discovery were a means of expanding colonial empires, establishing new trade routes and extending diplomatic and trade relations to new territories, but with the Enlightenment scientific curiosity became a new motive for exploration to add to the commercial and political ambitions of the past. See also List of Arctic expeditions and List of Antarctic expeditions.
Bearing compass (18th century)
HMS Dolphin at Tahiti in 1767
La Boudeuse arriving in Matavai in 1767
HMS Endeavour off the coast of New Holland, by Samuel Atkins c. 1794