It was probably after her spell in debtors' prison that JS
turned to her great goal of winning the prize offered by the government on 8 July 1714 for the discovery of a viable means...
Reception
Jane Squire
So far as is known, none of JS
's writing or actions made any impression on the Longitude Commission
ers. The longitude papers (at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
, now located in Cambridge) contain...
Textual Production
Jane Squire
JS
had printed a proposal for ascertaining longitude, which she circulated round the members of the Longitude Commission
.
Squire, Jane. A Proposal for Discovering Our Longitude. Printed for the author, and sold by P. Vaillant and F. Needham, 1742.
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Timeline
8 July 1714: Queen Anne signed the royal consent to the...
Building item
8 July 1714
Queen Anne
signed the royal consent to the Longitude Act, whereby Parliament offered a reward of up to £20,000 for a foolproof method of calculating longitude at sea.
Williams, J. E. D. From Sails to Satellites: The Origin and Development of Navigational Science. Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Quill, Humphrey. John Harrison: The Man Who Found Longitude. Baker, 1966.