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Beginnings
Cook,
the son of a farm labourer, was born in the village of Marton on
October 27,1728.
Nobody
had thought that there was anything unusual about his birth but
when Cook died on February 14, 1779, King George III cried.
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Cook,
popularly called Captain Cook, was apprenticed to a firm of shipwrights
at Whitby and taught himself mathematics and astronomy.
His
skills as a navigator were noticed during his time in the Royal
Navy.
Cook's
charts of the St Lawrence River helped the British victory at Quebec
in September 1759.
His
observations of the solar eclipse off the coast of Newfoundland
in July 1766 were published by the Royal Society of London.
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Born in Marton on October 27, 1728. Died February 14, 1779.
