Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
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Zachary Williams
Standard Name: Williams, Zachary
Used Form: Zachariah Williams
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Anna Williams | When she was first in London AW
found plenty to occupy her, both activities undertaken for interest and those undertaken for earnings to support herself and her father. She became an assistant to Zachary Williams |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Williams | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Williams | Her father, Zachariah or Zachary Williams
, was a doctor and a keen amateur scientist and experimenter. He set his sights on winning the prize offered for discovering a means of measuring longitude at sea... |
| Residence | Anna Williams | AW
was officially evicted from the lodgings where she was living with her father
at the Charterhouse in London, whose rules forbade residence by women. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Anna and Zachariah Williams |
| Textual Production | Anna Williams | When Zachary Williams
published A True Narrative of Certain Circumstances relating to Z. W. . . . in Sutton's royal hospital, the Charterhouse, he included in the text some letters of Anna
's. Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985. 11-12 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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.
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