A proposal for discovering our longitude
By: by Jane Squire = Proposition pour la decouverte de notre longitude / par Jeanne Squire.
Publisher: Printed for the author, and sold by P. Vaillant ... and F. Needham ...
Published: 1742
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Longitude -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Proposition pour la decouverte de notre longitude.
Notes: The proposal was originally put forth in 1731 to the Parliamentary commission appointed to evaluate proposals to determine longitude.  Included in this edition are the letters written over the ensuing 10 years in her unsuccessful attempt to have her system accepted.
English and French on facing pages.
Signatures: pi² A-B⁴ C1 a-y⁴ z1 C2·3.
Includes a postscript containing the author's scheme for a universal artificial language, Lacinfanta.