Name: A Proposal to Determine our Longitude

Barcode: 1883

Image Number: 1883

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/1883.0001

Author: Squire, Jane, 1671?-1743

Date Produced: 1743

Language: English

Dimensions: Height: 20

Notes: Earlier ed. has title: A proposal for discovering our longitude by Jane Squire ...London: Printed for the author ... 1742 Proposal first sent in 1731 to the Parliamentary commission appointed to evaluate proposals to determine longitude at sea. Both 1742 and 1743 eds. include the correspondence of Squire's unsuccessful attempt to have her proposal accepted, and a postscript with her scheme for an artificial language, Lacinfanta

LC Call Number: QB225.S68 1743

OCLC: 16574114

Accession Number: SM-1743-1

Donor: Smith