Eliza Edwards
{{Short description|Human computer (1779–1846)}}
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Eliza Edwards (1779–1846) was a human computer and daughter of Mary Edwards.
Early life and education
Edwards was born in Ludlow to Mary and John Edwards.{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-history-of-mathematics-9780199213122?cc=gr&lang=en&|title=The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics|date=2008-12-18|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199213122|editor-last=Robson|editor-first=Eleanor|series=Oxford Handbooks|location=Oxford, New York|editor-last2=Stedall|editor-first2=Jacqueline}}
Career
Eliza was a human computer who took on the job of her mother Mary Edwards, working on the Nautical Almanac.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/437347262|title=Women in early British and Irish astronomy : stars and satellites|last=T.)|first=Brück, M. T. (Mary|date=2009|publisher=Springer|others=Royal Astronomical Society.|isbn=9789048124732|location=Dordrecht|oclc=437347262}} She lost her job in 1829, during the formation of the Nautical Almanac Office. She was paid by the Board of Longitude.{{Cite web|url=https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-RGO-00014-00017/443|title=Papers of the Board of Longitude : Papers on payments for Board work|website=Cambridge Digital Library|access-date=2018-07-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-RGO-00014-00016/819|title=Papers of the Board of Longitude : Printers' and publishers' accounts|website=Cambridge Digital Library|access-date=2018-07-03}}
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Category:19th-century English mathematicians
Category:19th-century British women mathematicians
Category:19th-century English women scientists
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