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Mistress of science : the story of the remarkable Janet Taylor, pioneer of sea navigation

by John S. Croucher, Rosalind F. Croucher

This biography details the life of Janet Taylor, a nineteenth-century mathematician and astronomer who rose to prominence in the field of sea navigation. She was a teacher and instrument maker, and the only woman to patent a nautical instrument in over two hundred years.

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