Thomas Rawlins

Whatever education JS received initially, she continued it for herself. She considered that as a Christian to Study the Law of God Day and Night . . . is my proper Business; Philosophy [that is...

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...

In 1743 the scholar Thomas Rawlins mentioned The Hardships of the English Laws: he was finding it hard to get hold of a copy in London.

Scholar Thomas Rawlins wrote to George Ballard (then working on his collection of women's lives) about the work of JS : he believed her longitude method to be feasible. He mentioned only obliquely that she...

Thomas Rawlins mentioned another work by JS which does not survive. It is a great Loss to Navigators yt [sic] she has not lived to finish her Catalogue of Stars, describing their Longitude Latitude...