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Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641), sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox (the Latinised version that he used on the Emmanuel College register and in his Latin manuscripts), [2] was an English astronomer. [3]
Jeremiah Horrocks (Toxteth Park, cerca de Liverpool, Lancashire; 1618-ibídem, 3 de enero de 1641), también llamado Jeremiah Horrox, [1] fue un astrónomo inglés, el primero en hacer la observación del tránsito de Venus.
Jeremiah Horrocks was an English astronomer who improved Kepler's tables and observed the transit of Venus in 1639. He rejected Kepler's theory of planetary attraction and proposed an elliptical orbit for the planets based on analogy with the conical pendulum.
Jeremiah Horrocks was a British astronomer and clergyman who applied Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion to the Moon and whose observations of a transit of Venus (1639) are the first recorded.
1 de oct. de 2004 · Learn how Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree, the only two observers of the first transit of Venus in 1639, sparked the beginning of British research astronomy. Explore their observations, predictions, and legacy in the context of the Copernican revolution and the Royal Society.
Jeremiah Horrocks (Liverpool, Anglaterra, 1618 o 1619 - 3 de gener de 1641), [1] va ser un astrònom anglès, conegut per haver estat el primer a observar un trànsit de Venus.
Jeremiah Horrocks. (c. 1618—1641) astronomer. Quick Reference. (1619–1641) English astronomer. Little is known about the early life of Horrocks (or Horrox) other than that he was born into a Puritan family in Toxteth, Liverpool, and was admitted to Cambridge in 1632.