“was gratified by beholding the pleasing spectacle of Venus upon the Sun”
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Jeremiah Horrocks
Jeremiah Horrocks, sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox, was an English astronomer. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he and his friend William Crabtree were the only two people to observe and record. Most remarkably, Horrocks correctly asserted that Ju…
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science · English astronomer (1618–1641) · astronomer · mathematician · priest · translator · also Jeremiah Horrocks, Horrocks
Born 1 January 1618 · Died 3 January 1641 · Q354631
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Nature: Jeremiah Horrocks
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2023· 1 entry
A new play, Horrox on Horrocks's short life and overlooked achievements, by playwright David Sear, was staged in Cambridge’s ADC Theatre from 28 March to 1 April as part of the Cambridge festival
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2012· 1 entry
It was renamed the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute for Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy
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2011· 1 entry
A sculpture by Andy Plant, titled Heaven and Earth, was installed at the Pier Head in Liverpool to celebrate Horrocks's work on the transit of Venus
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1927· 1 entry
The Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory was built at Moor Park, Preston
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1859· 2 entries
A marble tablet and stained-glass windows commemorating him were installed in the Parish Church of St Michael, Much Hoole
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“...Thy return Posterity shall witness; years must roll Away, but then at length the splendid sight Again shall greet our distant children's eyes.”
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1641· 1 entry
Died 1641-01-03.
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1635· 1 entry
Studied at Emmanuel College (1632–1635).
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1618· 1 entry
Born 1618-01-01.
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