Lawrence Rooke (also Laurence) (1622–26 June 1662) was an English astronomer and mathematician.
[2] He became a fellow commoner at Wadham College, Oxford in 1650, having dropped out of academia for a period because of bad health.
[3][5] He was unpublished in his lifetime, but left papers on longitude and the moons of Jupiter that were published posthumously.
He also wrote at the Royal Society's request a set of directions for sailors, on the correct way to record meteorological and oceanographic observations on their travels.
These appeared in volume 1 of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions as Directions for Sea-men, bound for far Voyages (Phil.