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in 1743. Her parents, Priscilla and Robert Squire, were wealthy and influential. Squire moved to London in 1720 where, although involved in litigation and imprisoned for debt for three years, she used her influential connections to pursue her religiously-based longitude project and the circulation of
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in 1733 in which she stated, "âI do not remember any Play-thing, that does not appear to me a mathematical
Instrument; nor any mathematical Instrument, that does not appear to me a Play-thing: I see not, therefore, why I should confine myself to Needles, Cards, and Dice". Hanmer was one of the
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Squire's proposals to determine longitude at sea drew on contemporary astronomy and other learned traditions, as well as heavily depending on her religious world view. Her books outlined a scheme that involved dividing the heavens into more than a million segments as well as a
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and his response, also printed in Squire's book, indicated that "âthat you are to expect to lye under some
Prejudice upon account of your Sex". Although her project was impractical, she gained the ear of a number of influential individuals, including
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