A proposal for Discovering our Longitude

Item author: Jane Squire
Item date: 1742
Grant Value: Presented
Item date acquired: 1972
Item institution: National Maritime Museum
Town/City: London

Miss Squires method involved dividing up the night sky into over a million small quadrants, the stars located in each then having to be learnt by heart. This edition includes Miss Squires letters to the Board of Longitude expressing her surprise and indignation that her scheme was not accepted